Every program opens as iTunes, it has taken over and I can't access anything. Help?

All of my desktop and menu icons now show as the iTunes logo and when I click on them they open as iTunes. They still say what they're meant to be in writing underneath but they all open as iTunes. When I uninstall iTunes it goes back to normal but I really like using iTunes and I'd like to know what's going on. I don't want to have to uninstall.

First I'd set up a System Restore point. Then try applying the LNK registry fix from the following document:
File Association Fixes for Windows 7
Does that get your icons back to normal?

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