ITunes 5 says software not installed

When I upgraded to iTunes 5 it installs fine. But when I open iTunes with my iPod mini installed it gives me an error that says "software required for communicating with iPod is not installed. Please reinstall iTunes." May not be exact wording. After I reinstall, the same thing happens. I have reverted back to 4.9 and it all seems to work. This seems to be a glitch with the new version.
Anyone else?
Shawn

Okay. I uninstalled iTunes 5.0 by going through the remove programs. I then deleted ProgramFiles/iTunes and Program Files/iPod/bin. I then put the CD that I got with the iPod in and it installed iTunes 4.9. When I started iTunes, it said that the iTunes Library file was from a newer version of iTunes. I found this file in my account in the iTunes folder. As it happened the old one had been saved in a subdirectory. I put it back and iTunes showed my library.
I am still having weird behavior with my iPod though. It goes to "do not disconnect" and never comes back. I cannot eject it or anything. Go figure.
The other thing that is happening now is that when I log onto my wife's account, I cannot run iTunes. I get the -2054 error from Quicktime that I have seen posted. I do not get that from my account. Any info on this?
Jim

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