ITunes 7.7 hanging on exit, tips on how to completely uninstall?

Great, my install of 7.6 was fine until I decided to enable Library Sharing over my home network, then that's when all the problems started. After that, I could not exit out of iTunes. It will always hang and I have to use the Task Manager to force exit, which means a lot of the settings arn't saved.
I updated to 7.7 and the problem persists. I've even tried manually uninstalling all traces of Apple software on my computer (including iTunes, Apple Mobile Support, Bonjour, Quicktime, Apple Updater) and the various folders and files in the Vista User folder and Program Data folders.
Does anyone know a better way to COMPLETELY wipe away all signs of Apple on my computer so I can try a true fresh install? Because even if I delete those files, the reinstall of iTunes still has some old settings. Im assuming it's somewhere in the registry.
Anyways, does anyone know of a fix for this? Is there some kind of software conflict or anything? This happens even if I don't plug my iPod in. In fact, pluggin in my iPod and ejecting it works fine. It's mainly the exiting of the iTunes app.
I'm on Vista x64 SP1 with all updates.
C2D 3.33GHz
4GB Ram
8800 GTX
Note: I've also noticed that it crashes when I uncheck the "Look for Apple Remotes" checkbox in the Preferences.
Message was edited by: ElectricBrain

My god!! Ok i found the fix.
Im just going to leave it here for others.
http://www.eset.com/support/kb.php?option=com_kb&Itemid=29&page=articles&article id=760
Turns out it was Nod32 2.7 causing iTunes to bugger up.
Woohoo!

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