ITune's occasionally won't open - COM error

Hi folks:
I have been happily (more or less) using iTunes for the last few years. I recently upgraded my computer to a Dell XPS running Vista Home Premium.
I have had very few issues with iTunes on my new system, with the exception of one problem: iTunes will occasionally not start up. If I click on the iTunes icon, nothing happens. If I bring up task manager I see that iTunes.exe is running (in addition to the iTunesHelp.exe process - which always runs). The weired thing is that the iTunes.exe process is using no CPU and only takes 16MB of memory (iTunes normally chews up around 70MB on my computer).
This problem is solved if I log out (and log out my wife) out of our individual logins and then log back into my account. (a fresh start seems to fix the problem). In addition, I have noticed that I need to log out of all active/logged-in accounts. If I do not do this, then iTunes will still not start up.
Out of curiosity, I checked the Windows Event Logs, and noticed that every time I had this problem, the following Error Message was posted to the Application Event Log:
The COM+ Event System could not remove the EventSystem.EventSubscription object {53AE4616-066E-4794-96D0-C3AF0B3D657C}-{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}-{ 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}. The HRESULT was 80070005.
Has anyone out there seen this before? I tried googling around, but did not have any luck.
Thanks!

This problem is solved if I log out (and log out my wife) out of our individual logins and then log back into my account. (a fresh start seems to fix the problem).
that's sounding a lot like a fast user switching issue. see:
iPod for Windows: Fast user switching in Windows XP and Windows Vista is not supported

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