ITunes installation gone wrong with Vista!

I can't get iTunes 8 installed on this new PC. Everytime I try to install, Internet Explorer shuts down with no explanation as to why. I am so frustrated.
I have skimmed through the Apple iTunes on line solutions and MS Windoew Vista on line solutions but just haven't found the answer to my installation problem.
Anybody else out there run into this roadblock or heard some fixes about it?
I am looking for any others with this problem and how they got around the install problem before I start calling Apple or MS for tech support.

Hi Katrina,
I was trying to download iTunes from the iTunes download site, which looks like the same site in the link you listed.
When I select "Download" I get a brief flash of a box or window opening in the uper left side of my monitor, then I end up at a new internet web page that is an iTunes, "thank you for downloading iTunes". But then a smaller darn window opens on top of that that says something like "Internet Explorer has stopped working". We are checking for a fix for the problem". Then it changes to no solution is available and you have to cancle out of internet explorer.

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