ITunes is stuck open and I cannot close it

I have a MacBook Pro that I just purchased and I am a first time Mac user.  It came downloaded with iTunes 10.5.  I then updated to the 10.5.1 but now I cannot get iTunes to close and if I force shut it down then try to open it again I get the iTunes screen but can't do anything, not even close it down.
I have seen some information on uninstalling but that looks like PC info.  How do I unistall on a Mac?  And, if I do unistall it what next?  Thank you for any suggestions.

you wont be able to uninstall iTunes by itself as it is part of the OS X package. Tried that before when i had problems with iTunes and preventing my macbook from shutting down everytime i use iTunes. In short, i had to reinstall the whole Lion package --although it did not resolve the issue up to now, thats the way it is! your best bet is to take it to apple genius bar and let them sort it out for you (as you said) you have just purchased the machine.

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