Cannot install iTunes 7.0.1.8

I've made the mistake of trying to upgrade iTunes so my daughter can purchase a song. iTunes installer wrecked the existing version and presented the message "The older version of QuickTime cannot be removed."
I've tried to uninstall/reinstall several older versions of iTunes. Also tried uninstall/reinstall several versions of QuickTime. Also tried the Windows installer cleanup. Also tried removing registry entries. Also tried removing files as recommended in Apple support articles. All to no avail. I haven't tried driving over the iPod with my car and reverting to CDs. But that is next.
Can anyone out there offer any other suggestions? The various error messages all seem to relate to QuickTime leaving some hidden things somewhere that prevent the uninstall.
Does anyone from Apple read these messages? Please issue a a fix to your installer. It really is extraordinarily bad software.
  Windows XP  

No luck. I tried the instructions again. Neither QuickTime nor iTunes were listed in the Windows Installer Clean Up tool. But still the same message "can't uninstall Qt".
So I went through the instructions yet another time, making sure everything was uninstalled and files were deleted and the Windows Installer Clean Up tool didn't list the apps. Then I tried installing QuickTime standalone from the link you provided (making sure I had the version without iTunes). I got the same "old version could not be uninstalled " message that I got from the iTunes installer. Arggggg!
I tried downloading and reinstalling the Windows Installer Clean Up Tool just in case there was a newer version, and because it was suspicious that neither iTunes nor Quicktime appeared in the list. And oddly enough, that failed too because it couldn't find the msicuu.msi file. Lovely. I located msicuu.msi in the local settings Temp folder (which had just been cleaned out from following the Apple support instructions), but alas the installer says it's not a valid install package, even though the exe just put it there. Fortunately it didn't destroy the existing
version, which doesn't list iTunes or QuickTime anyway. (I suppose I should run the existing Installer Clean Up tool on itself.... sshhhhhheeeeeeessshhh)
Any other ideas? It's almost like I'll need to reinstall Windows to get iTunes working.... I'm wishing there were a Linux version of iTunes...

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