ITunes doesn't start (different from others...)

I upgraded to iTunes 6 (from 5.0.1) a while back. It worked fine for a while, then one day, it refused to start. Looking in Task Manager showed that it would start for about 2-3 seconds and then die. Installing a fresh copy would get as far as the license agreement, and then exhibit the same behavior after accepting it.
This is where the story got interesting. I opened up iTunes on my other hard drive (which I had once used as my main drive and still had an installed copy of iTunes). It worked perfectly! Turns out it was version 4.7.
So today, my sister got an iPod nano. We knew that iTunes might not work, so we uninstalled version 6 and installed the copy from the CD. Same deal. I uninstalled that and installed iTunes 5. Same deal.
From what I've gathered from a few other threads, I can provide the following information:
- QuickTime starts fine.
- No Norton Internet Security 2005 installed.
- Spyware and virus scans turn up clean.
So I'm out of ideas. This is the strangest software problem I've ever encountered.

As for security software, I have ewido (as suggested elsewhere on this forum) and ZoneAlarm.
hmmmm. Katrina is better versed on ZoneAlarm/iTunes conflicts than i am. but we'd probably better check on it.
probably best to disconnect from the internet before trying an experiment.
reboot the PC. disable both ZoneAlarm's firewall and antivirus. Launch your Task Manager to the processes tab. now try another itunes launch.
do you either get (a) an itunes launch, or (b) a changed behavior by itunes.exe in Task Manager when you try to launch itunes under those conditions? (longer persistence in Task Manager, for example)
love, b

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