ITunes is not opening for no apparent reason

My iTunes won't open anymore. I don't know what's wrong. It was working fine yesterday and now it just bounces in the task bar. I tried to update it but an "unexpected error" occurs every time. Similarly, I tried to download it offline and I got the same message. I am afraid to delete iTunes for fear of losing my music. Anyone know what might be going on. Is my best chance to delete it, re-download iTunes, and go ahead and upload all my music again?

This is the itunes store with windows forum. So assuming you're on a windows PC (alhtough your signature says Mac), try doing a repair on itunes. In XP, it's Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs, click on change and then repair.

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