Imac G4 upgrade to Tiger and Itunes

Hi All,
After a 3 day installation, de-installation loop I finally found a fix for upgrading and wanted to share in case others have the same issues.
I was going from Puma to Tiger (disc 10.4.6) and upgrade to 10.4.11. I wanted to run an Itunes version that would accept a 3rd Gen Nano (7.6 or above it said).
Apple updates offered me an upgrade to Itunes 9 which is where my 3 day install/de-install started. Its a shame that the upgrade facility doesn't do any compatibility testing first but you live and learn.
The issue is that if you load Ver 9 Itunes then you can't downgrade to anything that you download. I could only get Itunes 6 (on the 10.4.6 DVD) to load but then I couldn't run my Ipod. After following lots of instructions from this forum and tips/hints from others without any success (and I noticed many others were facing the same lack of success with totally de-installing Itunes 9) I decided that the only way through was to format and start again. Itunes 9 must do something or add something that isn't documented that stops you using ver 7 or 8.
So please don't waste your life - just format, re-install and don't upgrade to ITunes 9 if your can't run Safari 4. It took 3 hours to start from scratch
I'm going to copy to the Itunes forum in case this helps anyone else.
Cheers

Hi S!
Are you using a Full Retail Version of the Tiger install DVD, or a disk that may have shipped with your PowerBook G4?
Is the RAM original or added?
ali b

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