ITunes 7 is the bane of my music video existence

I started this as part of someone else's thread and decided to be "courteous" and start my own. I'm not an Apple fan & I don't own an iPod - I have the 30GB Creative Zen M:Vision mp3 player. I bought iTunes so I could purchase and watch videos, which aren't transferrable to anything but an iPod...my mistake. I recently upgraded my computer from a Dell Dimension 8200 series to an XPS 410. Since I got my new computer, iTunes has not worked. I try to open it and I get the infamous "iTunes has encountered a problem and needs to close" message, which is extremely infuriating. I have installed it, uninstalled it & reinstalled it more times than I care to remember. b noir asked if I installed a K-Lite Codec Pack & I hace the Basic 2.76 Pack on my machine. It doesn't seem to make an ounce of difference. Please help me!
Dell XPS 410   Windows XP   Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6600 (2.4GHz,1066FSB) with 4MB cache, 2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz

I sympathize and I just started my travail with iTunes. I think the worst part is that these messages just circulate in the ether with absolutely no one from Apple even making an attempt to help out. This is a very Kafka-easque situation. Sorry I can't be of more help than to sympathize.

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