ITunes error my music folder

Dear apple costumers
I'm a new user of apple product, i recived for my graduation an iPod 30Gb, it's was amazing!
Unfortunately iTunes dosen't work on my pc, it's required my music folder, i try to create a new forlder but nothing happen. On apple site this kind of erorr it's contemplate and i download tweak UI program, but wen i searcing i special forlder to find my music folder to change the location it dosent exist!
Please help me i'm trouly disoriented
Carlo
P.s.
I was calling apple costumer service and they take me on telephone 40 minutes and noting was change

If TweakUI can't see your My Music folder, see this post:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1731188&#1731188
Be careful as it involves editing the registry.

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