Itunes isn't launching on my mac book pro

The other day my iTunes decided not to launch, i have been trying to solve this issue.
I have restarted the computer many times
i have attempted to uninstall itunes which only gave me a notice saying can not remove due to Mac OS X needing iTunes
I dowloaded the installer for iTunes and tried to see if installing it would fix it
i have noticed however that when i launch iTunes, the display in the console reads a message:
"iTunes:
The plugin 'Quartz Composer Visualizer' failed to load because it has the wrong CPU archiecture for this version of iTunes. (3585)"
any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Turns out that was partly the case, as i had updated my itunes software but not updated to OS X Mountain Lion it stopped working
upon updating to Mountain Lion everything came back to functional.

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My apologies for the cumbersome subject line/question. In a nut shell, I currently, have my itunes account on my spouses PC and on my iPad(3). I love the Mac stuff so much that recently, I purchased a Mac Book Pro so I could work from two Mac products. I want to take all the apps that I purchased, music, photos etcetera that is on my ipad and put it on to my Mac Book, but it is my understanding that I can only have my music and purchased apps or itunes account on two procducts that includes a PC. So my first question is do I have to, uninstall the itunes on my spouses PC before I can synch my iPad to the Mac, keeping in mind that the itunes account is in my name.
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If you could copy the iTunes library to your new Mac, that would be the ideal thing to do in order to transfer the iTunes library over. That would make the process pretty easy. You can also download most purchased content again as long as you use the same Apple ID and you could move content into your iTunes library that way.
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