ITunes broken forever?!

Whenever i click iTunes to open it this message comes up : 'this application has failed to start because DSOUND.dll was not found.Re-installing the application may fix this problem' I have tried re-installing and it still does not work. I need iTunes back!
Help me please!

As long as nothing else is missing.
This is what you can do:
Go to http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?dsound
Download the Dsound.dll and after that is downloaded, extract that to C:\Windows\System\
Then I would restart the computer and try iTunes again.

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Hello back, and thank you both for responding. I had no idea there was two separate iTunes forums. I guess I'll go post to the right one.
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I have 50 Gigs left on my hard drive and that's only because I had to do two "Archive and Installs" on my iMac last week. That left me with over 20 gigs in two "Previous System Folders". I'm going to delete them eventually to get that space back, but my problems were happening before when I had almost 75 gigs, and are still happening now. Nothing has changed.
My iTunes has maybe 10 gigs of stuff total, with most of it music, then maybe iPhone applications (probably 2 or 3 gigs), but only one short 45 minute video, and a couple of podcasts. Nothing else. I'm a middle aged mom, so I'm not much into iTunes except for my iPhone stuff.
So, I'm confused by iTunes reluctance to open, but will go post on the Mac iTunes forum.
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Identifier:      com.apple.appstore
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Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [157]
User ID:         501
Date/Time:       2012-09-20 15:09:21.308 -0300
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8.1 (12B19)
Report Version: 10
Interval Since Last Report:          1063564 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           1
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   8
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<pre>
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