I want an older version of iTunes.

does anyone know where to find the earlier versions?
seriously, iTunes 7.0 drove me crazy enough that i uninstalled it, because it kept losing the file paths to my library, and i kept having to go and re-find all of the songs every day or two. doing that for a thousand songs is ridiculous.
i know i saw a link in one of these threads to download iTunes 6.something. help?

Updating, re-installing, or un-installing does not effect your music files. They are stored in a separate location from the iTunes install folder.
It is possible that an un-installing, or re-installing could reset you preferences iTunes may not know where the music files are any more. In that case you would have to re-add the music files to the library.

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