How to delete preferences?

Could someone please tell me how to go about deleting preferences for ITunes? I knew how to do it in OS9 but I have not yet figured out how to do it in Tiger. A friend of mine was listening to ITunes yesterday and writing a final paper when her G4 IBook crashed, told her the hard drive was Zeroed out and would not restart. I zapped the PRAM and it started fine so I am thinking that maybe if I trashed her ITunes preferences it might help her problem. I told her to get it backed up and try working without ITunes on and she had no problem the rest of the day.

and with the latest version of iTunes go into the User account to Start Items to get rid of the Helper thing or it will keep popping up in the Prefs.

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