ITunes Error says it's not installed correctly.

It says:
The software required for communicating with the IPod is not installed correctly. Please reinstall iTunes to install the iPod's software.
I reinstalled everything and nothing works still.

Celina, you'll need to uninstall iTunes by following the steps in the post below, then reinstall.
Da Gopha, "iTfW: stepwise clean uninstallation of iTunes", 09:51am Apr 5, 2005 CDT
Also be aware that the cause of this error message is often Windows XP's Fast User Switching, which allows more that one user to be logged into the computer at the same time. iTunes cannot handle this and will cause the error to appear. If you can live without this feature, go to Start/Control Panel/User Accounts then 'Change the way users log on and off' and remove the checkmark from Fast User Switching.
Fast User Switching in Windows XP is not supported

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