Hard drive crashed, can't reinstall iTunes

Here's the situation. I had two hard drives in my computer (running Win XP, btw), the one on which I had iTunes installed, but not the one that had the operating system on it, crashed. All data was unrecoverable.
Once I removed that drive from the computer, my machine ran fine. But when I tried to run iTunes, of course, it wouldn't run. So I tried to download and install it on my one existing hard drive (plenty of room for it). But, when I tried to run the installer, I get an error windos that pops up telling me that "iTunesMiniPlayer.resources is not a valid short file name" and the installer then "encountered errors before iTunes could be configured". At which point no further information is forthcoming and the installer shuts down.
I tried to use add/remove programs to uninstall iTunes, but when I do so, I get the "iTunesMiniPlayer.resources is not a valid short file name" messag again, as well as a "Fatal error druing installation" message, and the uninstall stops.
I used regedit to eliminate every reference to iTunes I could find in my registry, and still get all the same results listed above.
At this point, I am utterly baffled. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
-G

I tried to use add/remove programs to uninstall iTunes, but when I do so, I get the "iTunesMiniPlayer.resources is not a valid short file name" messag again, as well as a "Fatal error druing installation" message, and the uninstall stops.
okay. let's try downloading and installing the Windows Installer CleanUp utility and using that to clear any leftover iTunes installation configuration information from the PC.
Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility
does that get you past the miniplayer message?

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