Itunes 8.1.1 Not Opening

Recently my Itunes stopped working. I have had 8.1.1 since it has been released and have had no problems. I recently installed a security update for Mac OSX (I'm running 10.4.11) and since then my Itunes has stopped working correctly. When I try to open the program it says "Itunes quit unexpectedly...." and I have the Close/Try Again/Report options. When I click "Try Again" the program opens and works fine but it puts Itunes into default mode, and once I close it I have to do it all again the next time. I have tried reinstalling 8.1.1 as well as deleting all prefs and plugins but nothing works. Thanks for any help.

All this happened since update to OS X 10.5.7.
Still no solutions here, but I discovered it crashed on start-up when it tried to submit info to Genius...
So after relaunching and reseting the app (just hit relaunch a couple of times after it crashes and you get option to reset it too), I managed to get it to stay open by canceling Genius update.
Then to test theory I manually updated Genius and it came back with this message:
"Genius results can't be updated right now. An unknown error occured (4010). Please try again later."
But at least it stayed open!
hth

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