ITunes application could not be opened. required folder cannont be found

Hello,
I'm getting an error message that says "*The iTunes application could not be opened. The required folder cannot be found*".
I running the latest version of iTunes on a Windows Vista PC. I have three user profiles on this PC. iTunes works perfectly on two of the profiles, but on one profile (the admin profile) I get the above error message. Until recently, iTunes was working properly on all three profiles. I can't say what has changed recently, this is my daughters PC. Any guidance would be of great help. Thank you,
Chris

Hi and thank you for your response. I did upgrade iTunes to the latest version hoping that would solve the issue, but it did not. When I open iTunes in the Admin profile and I get the error message my only option is to click "OK" which then closes the application (iTunes). When I log into the other profiles on the computer, all the music plays just fine and iTunes seems to be working fine.

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