Itunes files missing

My itunes has worked fine for several months now, since xmas infact. untill the other day it decided to not work. whilst trying to start i tunes the following message appears
"itunes cannot run because some of its required files are missing. please reinstall itunes"
i proceeded to reinstall itunes off the disk i got with my i pod, and i downloaded the latest itunes and installed that. i am still given the above message.
any help would be greatly appreciated as i need my music.
xx

You don't really need the CD cuz whats on it is outdated anyways. Try uninstalling iTUnes AND Quicktime by going to control panel>add & remove in windows.
Once done disable antivirus or any other security programs, then goto apple.com and download/install the latest iTunes.
If you have an iPod, go here and install the latest iPod updater to your PC as well http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/

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