Itunes 9 won't install on Snow Leopard.

Itunes 9 won't install on my Snow Leopard. It wont even try. The install screen freezes on "Choose Disk to install" screen and the eternal beachball attacks. I've tried 4 times now, with no success
Current Itunes: 8.2.1 (6)

I'm having similar issues. iTunes 9 hung during the install. When it launched, it hung on converting the library, but eventually did it. Took well over a half hour. Then it automatically tried to do a Genius update.
Well, that also hung iTunes and almost an hour.
I then plugged in my wife's 32 GB Touch. Again hung iTunes. Force Quit and re-launch, and it detects the iPod and prompts to update to 3.1.1. Halfway through the update I get a spinning beach ball.
After that is done and I finally sync the **** touch, I update my Podcasts. Spinning beach ball and 15 minutes later, no updates.
Then I turned SoundCheck on. Instant beach ball. It's been an hour and half and it hasn't even done 25% of my library yet. It moves along slowly, but there's a spinning beach ball throughout the whole process so far.
I've rebooted between each spinning beach ball and force quit more times than I can count.

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1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
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