Installing/Uninstalling Itunes

Am having an issue installing the latest version of itunes.... I get the following error in the installation process....
Error writing to file C:\Program Files\itunes\itunes.resources\pl.lproj\Aboutbox.rtf
Verify you have access to that directory
I have followed the instructions in trying to remove Itunes
"Removing and Reinstalling Itunes, Quicktime, and other components for Windows XP"
and when i try to delete the c:\ProgramFiles\Itunes folder i then get the following error
"Cannot delete pl.lproj: The directory is not empty"
So as you can see i am stuck. Any help would be much appreciated....
Thanks

That one's consistent with disk/file damage. The first thing I'd try with that is running a disk check (chkdsk) over your C drive.
XP instructions in the following document: How to perform disk error checking in Windows XP
Select both Automatically fix file system errors and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors, or use chkdsk /r (depending on which way you decide to go about doing this). You'll almost certainly have to schedule the chkdsk to run on startup. The scan should take quite a while ... if it quits after a few minutes or seconds, something's interfering with the scan.
Does the chkdsk find/repair any damage? If so, can you get an install to go through properly afterwards?

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