***********Itunes= Fatal error!!!*************

i recently bought a Aspire 5515 (WOOPS!) which apparently are total garbage and im unable to install most things like virus scans, but that is beside the point. Itunes is the most frustrating for me because i just bought an iphone. What occurs is when i try to install itunes i get an error which says " There is an error with this windows installer package. A program required for this install could not be run. Contact your support personal or package vendor". It happened after i upgraded from itunes 7 or 8, which ever one, and went to a higher more advanced itunes, which is 9.0. After this message it rolls back and then it continues to attempt to install quick time ( which does not either...). After pointlessly installing Itunes i open and it gets a fatal error when it attempts to configure itunes or do something with it on its first opening.
Please help me with this because praying just doesn't seem to work and i really would hate for my laptop to go through a wall...

What occurs is when i try to install itunes i get an error which says " There is an error with this windows installer package. A program required for this install could not be run. Contact your support personal or package vendor".
With that one, I'd start with polydorus's suggestions from the following post:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10363261&#10363261

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