Itunes crashed - now it won't work at all - tried to uninstall but can't re

So - itunes was playing away happily when it just stopped - I tried to force quit it but no luck - it would just stay in the dock and I could not even get it out of the dock. I tried dragging the itunes icon from the application folder to the trashcan to uninstall it - no luck - it said itunes was still running even though I had force quit it a bunch of times.
I restarted my Mac - itunes was not in the dock so I drug the icon from the app folder to the trash and that worked. I downloaded the latest version of itunes (twice) both times the installation never would complete. When it came time to start the actual install - itunes showed up as "0" bytes and when I would hit next - I received a message saying there was nothing to install. I ran the "check for updates" thing and no updates are found for my computer.
So - I can't find itunes on my computer - I can't install it and I can't listen to any music. All my music is still on my external hard drive - I didn't lose anything
I'm just at a loss for what to do now.
Any help or advise would be great! Thanks!
Dan

Glad to hear your prolbems have been sorted.
Have had similar problems since performing a sofware update last week.
Itunes has crashed.
Can't be reinstalled.
The software update won't work, neither will disk utility.
Removing the .dmg files hasnt helped.
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