Fixing the itunes 8 & Vista BSOD

Not sure if this has been posted, but happy to share my fix. I too was suffering from the dreaded BSOD after clean installing iTunes 8. The BSOD was immediate upon connection of my iphone and associated with the usbaapl.dll.
Here's what to do:
1) Get yourself a copy of iTunes 7.7 (plenty of sites of the net are hosting old versions)
2) From the control panel uninstall "Apple Mobile Device Support"
3) Using WINACE or WINRAR extract the files from the iTunes 7.7 installation package.
4) From the extracted files install the AppleMobileDeviceSupport package (nothing else)
5) Voila...no more BSOD

Apple today released a tech note, suggesting to uninstall Apple Mobile Device Support, restart the computer, and re-download and re-install the iTunes 8 installer. It's unclear what about Apple Mobile Device Support was causing the problem.
According to Macworld and ZDNet, Apple simply replaced the files associated with Apple Mobile Device Support (usbaapl.sys or usbaapl64.sys) with the versions shipped with iTunes 7.7.
Computerworld highlighted several irate comments from an Apple Discussions thread on the subject, including precious gems such as "I love how Apple owns up to problems... IT'S NOT US! IT MUST BE YOU! OR MICROSOFT! OR YOUR MOUSE! OR YOUR CHAIR!"

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