I Cannot open up Lightroom 5.3 anymore. What happened????

I have owned and used Lightroom 5.3 64 bit for several months now. Last night I went to go work on some photos and now the whole program will not open up!!!! I have spent more than a half of a day on SUPER BOWL SUNDAY mind you, trying to figure out what went wrong. I have done a system restore. Nothing. I have deleted all my Lightroom programs and reloaded them. Nothing. I have no other options to try. What do I do NOW??? I paid good money for a program that every few months just stops working and I bash my head against the wall with my limited computer knowledge to try to get it up and running again. This is NOT the first time I have had this happen and each time I don't know what I did to fix it.
Why won't this program STABILIZE??? And what do I try now?????

Are you getting any error messages?
Try starting up LR with the Alt key pressed and held. If you do this, and LR can get started up to this point, then it will show you a list of LR catalogs. Make note of where they are.
Then try deleting your LR preferences file, which is stored under your users folder and not affected by re-installing the software.
Then start up LR, again, and see if it works.
Here is the process for resetting LR preferences:
http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/recover-catalog-images-resetting-lightrooms.html
You obviously cannot start LR so the first step of finding out where your catalog is stored via LR menus isn’t posstibel. That is why I suggested using the Alt-key method, above.
If you cannot find your LR catalog location via either method, then search your hard-drive for .lrcat files and make note of where they are before resetting your preferences. The reason why this is important is that LR remembers where your last catalog file is in the preferences and if you reset your LR preferences then it will no longer know where, and you’ll have to tell it the first time you start it up, afterwards.

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