ITunes: hopelessly broken?

I hope someone can help me out with this while I still have hair left to pull on.
After innocently installing iTunes 9.2 yesterday (as I considered updating my iPod Touch 3G to iOS4...), iTunes has essentially stopped working on my barely one-month old MBP. Simply put, it crashes whenever I click on the Apps tab, and now refuses to Sync up with my iPod. I have tried every potential fix I could find online--completely deleting and reinstalling iTunes, repairing disk permissions, launching iTunes in "Safe Mode", reinstalling OSX, creating a new User Account, running extensive checks on my RAM in Single User Mode, etc.--to no avail. Basically, the only thing I haven't tried is reformatting my boot disk and going through the painstaking process of setting up my computer from scratch again, which is something I would rather not do if I can avoid it. (Especially since the rest of my apps seem to be working fine.)
Oh yeah, here's a fun little tidbit: I have even reinstalled iTunes 9.1 (which formerly worked fine) and 9.0.3 and now even both of those older version of the program crash in exactly the same way. It's like iTunes simply refuses to let me access the Apps tab now. (All my Apps were legal and paid for, FWIW.)
Can somebody with a more logical mind than my own suggest how installing 9.2 could mess up my system to the point that it can no longer run previously working versions of iTunes? I'm completely baffled.
And regarding my OS, I'm still on 10.6.3 because the 10.6.4 update turned my computer into a beach ball factory.
After a month of owning this incredibly powerful machine, I am really starting to miss my PB G4 which was about 10% as fast but 10 times more stable. I'm really hoping this is just a bout of bad luck and not the shape of things to come for Apple operating systems...
Anyway, much obliged for your help.
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UPDATE:
In a final act of desperation, I decided to try downloading and reinstalling all of the updates at once (i.e. 10.6.4, iTunes 9.2, Safari 5.0, etc.) and lo and behold, everything appears to be running smoothly again. iTunes crashes are gone (at least for now) and OSX seems to be stable and not generating any unwarranted beach balls.
Don't ask me why running these very updates caused my system to go haywire a week ago... Must be some of that "magic" Steve is always talking about

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