Cannot get iTunes to start

Not sure if this is the correct forum but...
I am a long-time Mac OS X user (been using it since 10.0.3) however something has got me stumped. iTunes refuses to start - the Activity Monitor lists the application as Not Responding - after a while I give up and force quit. The application then disappears from the Activity Monitor but the Dock thinks it is still running (black triangle next to the application) and it won't allow a second attempt to re-start.
Any suggestions as to what I can do to sort it out; re-install iTunes? It is quite suspicious that my Mac crashed minutes before I started getting this problem (probably only the third time OS X has crashed on me in six years) so something may have got corrupted somewhere,
Thanks in advance

A word of caution to anybody trying "remedies" to a problem: Make sure you have a backup of the content (in this case your iTunes Musics Library) somewhere .... CD/DVD's, external hard drive, another computer, etc....
Michael, this might work for you:
Drag the iTunes alias from the Dock to the Desktop and let it go puff!
Disconnect any Firewire or USB cables (except Keyboard USB cable)
Repair Permissions from /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility
go to /Applications/Library/Receipts ... trash all iTunes.pkg files EXCEPT for iTunesX.pkg and iTunesPhoneDriver.pkg
Repair Permissions from /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility
Download 7.2.2 (Mac version) from the Apple website
Repair permissions again ..... RESTART ....
Click and drag a new iTunes icon alias from Applications to the Dock
Reconnect any Firewire/USB cables
Hopefully, you get lucky!
DIXIE
15"iMacG4/800/60GHD/768MB-12"PB/867/60GHD/1.12GB-G3/400/1GB Mac OS X (10.3.9) AE network

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