Can't restart iTunes after a crash

I've been having this problem off and on for several years now, and it's raised its ugly head again today. With varying frequency iTunes crashes on me. Not normally a huge problem, just restart. However, occasionally iTunes crashes but doesn't actually leave the dock. As long as it's in the dock I cannot relaunch itunes. In the past I've waited several hours in the vain hope that the icon to leave the dock, thus enabling me to relaunch. I have not had any success with this approach. The only solution I've found is to restart the entire computer, obviously less than ideal.
The truly irritating thing is that according to the Activity monitor and the terminal command $ top (which the Activity Monitor is based on IIRC), iTunes isn't running, but according to Option + Apple + Escape and the Dock it still is. However, any attempt to relaunch the app using either Option + Apple + Escape or the Dock does nothing. Apparently there is some subroutine that is running that does not quit along with the rest of the app and tells at least part of the system that itunes is still running and won't let me launch a second instance of it.
Does anyone know what this subroutine is so that i can find it and kill it from the terminal or activity monitor? Is there anything I can do other than restart my entire system when this happens (complete BS if this is the case)?
I've run into this problem on my 400MHZ iMac DV SE, 400MHZ PowerMac G3, 800MHZ PowerBook G4 DVI, 867MHZ PowerMac G4, and my first gen MacBookPro, so I know it's not bad ram, or a hardware problem.

Since no one else is having this problem, or at least no one has had any suggestions I would like to know if anyone knows what the process usbmuxd is supposed to be for. I've run into the crash that won't quit and can't be restarted issue again. Out of frustration I've taken to killing processes from the terminal and seeing if that will help. It did for one of my hangs after the initial crash, but not the second time. One of the processes I've killed is this usbmuxd which immediately restarts itself and places the following message in the console:
"usbmuxd-167 built for iTunesEightTwo on May 11 2009 at 13:36:48, running 32 bit"
is it possible that the reason I can't get iTunes out of the dock and cannot relaunch it is because some message between iTunes and this usbmuxd didn't get passed correctly and it continues to relaunch itself waiting for itunes to respond?

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