ITunes 8.11, Vista, File Associations and such

The latest version of iTunes appears to have messed up Vista, the desktop icons, and more. Today I got the message about iTunes needing to upgrade, I believe it is 8.1.1 or whatever the latest is (since it is today (Apr 11, 2009).
After running iTunes, I find that ALL of my desktop icons are showing the iTunes icon (for a wide variety of programs), double-clicking them does not work. Right clicking the icons, selecting "Properties", I see that the "Target" is correct -- in that it points to the correct file. However, the icon is wrong. If I change the icon from this screen, it shows on the shortcut properties dialog, but when I click "OK" nothing changes. Double-clicking does nothing. This includes icons in my Quick Launch Tray.
In addition, I have a program set up to run on startup (Trillian) that now runs iTunes instead. When I restart the computer I do not get Trillian, I get iTunes.
Something strange has happened to the registry, and the ONLY program I updated or installed was the iTunes update. This is very confusing and very frustrating ... I have no clue what to change to make everything work properly again.

Hmm. I posted a response that doesn't seem to be here.
The developers at Apple need to work on this issue. If I uninstall iTunes and reboot all is well.
However, it means I don't have iTunes installed on my computer. I have tried with versions 8.1.051 and 8.0.2.20 and neither of those worked either -- both of them came up with the icons going funky on me, and not working correctly.
There is something messed up in the registry, I would almost guarantee ... this is a serious issue and the QA team at Apple as well as the R&D team really need to get on this ASAP.

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