IPhoto/iTunes won't update or open on Macbook

Here's the background. I have a MacBook which has been taken in for repairs twice. The first time they replaced the motherboard and then the second time they replaced the battery and the part where the charger attaches to the laptop. It's about 3-4 years old. For about 6 or more months now updates haven't been working. I click to install them and it does the whole loading process, restarts, etc. and when it finally starts up again, nothing has been installed or updated. So now iTunes and iPhoto won't work because i "don't have the latest version". I can't access any of my photos or sync my iPhone. Recently I bought a MacBook Air  because I'm afraid of losing all my work since my MacBook isn't responding to anything. The store I bought my MacBook Air from put  my iTunes songs and movies onto my Air at my request. Unfortunately they only put on the songs I bought from iTunes and not the ones I downloaded from elsewhere so instead of having 2000 songs I only have 150. The space on the Air is minimal and I'm planning on buying an external hardrive to hold everything from my MacBook.  Which brings me to the problem. iTunes and iPhoto now won't open at all on my MacBook. iPhoto just says "You can't open your current photo library using this version of iPhoto. You have made changes to your photo library using a newer version of iPhoto. Do you want to quit and use the latest version of iPhoto, or do you want to create a new photo library?" but then only lets me quit. I don't understand what it means by a newer version since I haven't managed to update it for a long time. Then when I open iTunes, it just tells me to update it, which I click and load and shut down and wait for, and then when I open it up again it tells me to update the same program... I can tell updating is not working since usually it would take a while, whereas on my Macbook it just shuts down and restarts right away. Very frustrating!!!! If anyone has any tips or ideas as to what I'm doing wrong please let me know. I really don't want to take it in and pay for repairs or advice if it's something I can fix myself. Thank you!

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