Itunes 7 won't open, no error message, also another new strange problem

I found a thread for this awhile ago and followed it and it worked. However, I can't find the thread again, and after I restarted my computer, itunes once again would not open. I'm not getting any error message, just a brief moment with the hourglass symbol up and then nothing. So far I have uninstalled all itunes/quicktime products from my computer and reinstalled a few times, but nothing seems to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

some preliminary questions aimed at narrowing in on possible culprits.
(1) do you have Norton Internet Security 2005 installed on the PC?
(2) try launching your QuickTime. does it:
(a) launch perfectly fine?
(b) fail to launch with an error message? (if so, what does it say?)
(c) exhibit other peculiar behavior? (if so, could you describe it for us?)
(3) reboot the PC. bring up your Task Manager, and click on the "Processes" tab. now try to launch itunes again.
does an "itunes.exe" process appear in the Processes tab? if so, does it persist in there or does it disappear after a few seconds?

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