ITunes freezes after watching video

Hi,
Fairly frequently iTunes will lock up once I finish watching a video, either when it has reached the end or I manually close the wondow.
I have to then end the process to restart iTunes.
An additional sympton that might be related, every now and again when I open iTunes it opens as a blank library, I then have to repoint to the correct library and reset a few options.
Anyone else have these symptons and found a soluton?
Thanks
Matt

Codec packs are notorious for causing iTunes problems.
Try searching c:\windows\SysWOW64 for files with Quicktime in the name.
There should be just two:
Quicktime.qts
QuicktimeVR.qtx
If there are any other files or folders, try dragging them to the desktop ot any temporary folder.
Does that make any difference.
After doing that, do you have the latest Quicktime installed, if not update it.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html
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