Cannot open itunes without external drive connected

Mac os x 10.7.3
I am having serious issues with iTunes.
I dont know what changed but now i can no longer open itunes. It crashes before it even launches it seems like.
this doesnt happen when i have my external drive (where my music is stored). I have changed my itunes media folder to one on the external. Everything worked fine for weeks before this point.
I cannot open it in safe mode
i have tried downloading itunes and installing but that doesnt seem to work. Do i need to full remove itunes?
I also cannot open quicktime player. it says it is damaged or incomplete and theres no actual quicktime icon for the application just one of the incomplete type (similar to the prohibted sign) symbol of icons. I have tried to reinstall quicktime via the optionals install on my snow leopard disk. but no change
here is the error log i get:
Process:         iTunes [1552]
Path:            /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
Identifier:      com.apple.iTunes
Version:         10.6 (10.6)
Build Info:      iTunes-10604001~1
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [144]
Date/Time:       2012-03-24 20:03:25.940 -0700
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D50)
Report Version:  9
Interval Since Last Report:          52227 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           33
Per-App Interval Since Last Report:  104514 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   33
Anonymous UUID:                      698A0C30-4EF4-4DDD-BBCF-DB27A83CF81B
Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000110e8e194
VM Regions Near 0x110e8e194:
    MALLOC_LARGE           0000000110d6e000-0000000110d72000 [   16K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV 
-->
    MALLOC_LARGE           0000000110eea000-0000000110f73000 [  548K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV 
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See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
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