ITunes error 13010

was trying to open my itunes yesterday and all of a sudden it said that the application failed to open, error 13010. everything has been working fine up to this point and I did not do anything to my macbook so I am not sure exactly what happened. tried to delete and reinstall but it doesnt seem to work.
wondering if anyone can throw some light on my frustrating problem?
btw I am running snow leopard on a core 2 duo mac book.
thanks
David

try the following user tip from another thread:
Jim VanLeeuwen wrote:
Try removing the Genius database. In the "Finder" go to the /username/Music/iTunes/ folder and delete the "iTunes Library Genius.itdb" file. This may allow the program to launch again. This file will be recreated upon first use of the "Genius" feature.

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