Deleting Old Versions of iTunes?

I have multiple versions of iTunes on my computer and I'm wondering if I can delete the older ones after installing the new updates. It seems to me that all they are doing is taking up space, but I don't want to delete them if it will cause problems with iTunes or my iPod. It may seem like a dumb question, but I just wanted to be sure.

I'm sorry, I'm a complete tool and forgot my password and all that stuff and didn't get around to making a new account until tonight.
But anyway, I guess what I mean is under my program files it has iTunes version 1.1, iTunes 1.2, iTunes 1.3, etc. (not the actual versions but hopefully you get the point) as well as iPod for Windows 2005-05-05, iPod for Windows 2005-10-10, iPod for Windows 2006-02-02, etc... I'm just wondering if I can delete the older versions without deleting all the files I actually have in iTunes/on my iPod.
Once again, sorry for being so dumb and not responding to my own question, but if anybody could help out that would be fantastic.

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