ITunes hanging on launch (I think)

I just got my iMac the other day (first time Mac user, so pardon my failure to use the lingo), and I finally got around to opening iTunes for the first time last night. When I launch the program, though, the iTunes GUI comes up, but the spinny-rainbow-ball mouse cursor just keeps spinning away, despite iTunes not really doing anything that I can discern. I left it like that for a couple hours, thinking maybe it was just thinking long and hard about something, but it's still like that.
I can't click anything, and even when I Force Quit it, the window at least closes, but the little triangle under the iTunes icon on the dock doesn't go away, though iTunes and iTunes Helper no longer appear in the Activity Monitor. I can't relaunch iTunes after that. I just get an error (code -600).
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes. That didn't fix it. Anyone have any other ideas?
Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I don't know if this helps, but I also just noticed that iTunes is using up the whole CPU when it hangs like this.

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I am hoping someone can help me find a solution to this...
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