All Programs open then freeze

Have major problems with my laptop starting today.  Im running Mac OSX 10.7.2.  Starting today everytime i open a program (safari, itunes, iphoto) they open then instantely freeze up.  Im forced to force quit them.  Any ideas?

Haven't found an actual way to stop iTunes from crashing, but instead a clever way to avoid the whole problem.
From what I gather, it seems that many people share this issue, and iTunes crashing is a phenomenon that surfaced when iTunes v. 10.6 was issued. Therefore, going back to a pre-10.6 version of iTunes should fix whatever went wrong with the 10.6 update.
This does, therefore, require you to be able to get your hands on a pre-10.6 version of iTunes, whether it be by restoring it from a TimeMachine backup or some other means. My conjecture is that a freshly installed OS X Lion probably has such a version of iTunes.
iTunes 10.6 was, I believe, preceded by v. 10.5.3, which was released some time around 19th of January 2012 or so. Anyway, that 10.5.2 is the version of iTunes I went back to by restoring it from TimeMachine, which requires that you move the version of iTunes that you now have in your Applications folder – for which you'll have to change the file permissions of that iTunes – to the trash. Then you should be able to restore v. 10.5.3 from your TimeMachine back up.
That is just the first stage of these instructions I followed by "Brian from VA" on this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/message/17906595#17906595
I've been running iTunes 10.5.2 for about 20 minutes now and it hasn't crashed yet. I also seem to be able to sync it up with iOS 5.1... so far, so good..
Did the instructions of "Brian from VA" help you at all?
Message was edited by: Opinie
It wasn't v. 10.5.3 I downgraded to, as I claimed earlier, but 10.5.2 instead.

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