ITunes and Quicktime not launching

Greetings. iTunes or Quicktime will not open up on my Apple G4. When I click the icon it appears to look like its loading up, but fails to actually open. I am unable to gain access to any of my music files, or even play them through quicktime. Everything else opens fine on the computer. Restarts, etc... are not working either. Does anyone have any advice, it would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to avoid losing all my stuff on this computer, but do you think updating my operating system from panther to tiger would make itunes start working again?Thanks for any advice.

It seems to me, the Digidesign website has been reorganized.
Last time I looked (few months ago) it was no problem at all to go to the download links for the various drivers.
This time I'm being redirected to other pages and constantly getting "Problem accessing search server" messages, when searching for "Coreaudio Panther".
If the accessing problems aren't solved within a few days, I recommend you contact them by phone or email. I understand from what I read on the support page, you have to be a registered user to get support.
M

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For those reading this who do not have a QuickTime settings icon visable in their Control Panel window - look to the top left of the Control Panel window and click on Classic View.
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Itunes and quicktime dont launch

Hey there. And here's my problem: itunes does not launch anymore. When I open it I get a message saying itunes has encountered a problem and needs to close. I already installed itunes several times. Then installed only QuickTime. But QuickTime does nothing at all. There is no error message. It just doesn't launch. So, is there anybody out there who could help me with this? I need my ipod very urgently!!!!!!!! Thanx a lot. P.S.: I read almost every message in this forum but nothing seems to work with my computer.
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S.O.S. - I am so frustrated so I apologize in advance for any attitide you may detect in my post. I have been having problems with itunes for several months and it seems no matter what I try the problem either recurs or a new problem pops up. I have uninstalled and reintalled so many times - I am at the end of my rope - and ready to chuck it all - the pods - the player - and go back to real player!
I trace the start of the problems to when I upgraded to the 7.XX version, or whichever version included the juke box-like display function. Until recently I would get an error message saying that itunes has encountered a problem and needs to shut down. It sometimes happened immediately upon opening and sometimes for no particular reason after itunes was in operation for varied periods of time.
Now today - after yet another install/reinstall - first I got a "audio configuration" error which I fixed with a Quicktime reinstall but now when I try to open the program i get the "loading itunes library" screen and then ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
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well done, Ryan!
"From the command prompt run the following:
msiexec.exe /unregister
msiexec /regserver "
good gracious ... you had to do that to get the Cleanup utility to install?
prior to the new versions of the Windows Installer coming out, i only had to use that trick
b once
to get past an itunes installer error (and i only remember it because it showed up in an almost unique situation where you have to treat the last error in a chain of itune installer errors first) ... but you're about the third or fourth person reporting success with it in the past
b week.
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many thanks for reporting back!
love, b

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Message was edited by: Alrojo

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Head into your Add/Remove programs. Uninstall QuickTime.
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2. In My Computer, open Local Disk.
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5. Navigate to C:\Windows\system32\.
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Switch off antivirus and antispyware applications prior to the repair install.
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When you have uninstalled the problem items go on to the next stage. If you can't find anything you had better go on as well.
Download the stand alone Quicktime (the one without iTunes):
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html
Now Remove Quicktime using the method in this article (just Quicktime):
XP
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1925
Vista
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
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TD, thanks for the suggestions, but I'm still stuck. Here's what I've tried:
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The procedure entry point QTCF_CFUniCharGetUnicodePropertyDataForPlane could not be located in the dynamic link library QTCF.dll
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iTunes has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
QuickTime Player has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
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Perfect information, thanks.
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Let's go looking for the old stuff.
1. Open My Computer from the desktop or Start menu.
2. In the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
3. Click the View tab.
4. In the "Advanced settings" pane under "Hidden files and folders" make sure that the "Show hidden files and folders" option is selected, and the "Hide extensions for known file types" option is unchecked.
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Open the "system32" folder.
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