ITunes launch FAIL - Not enough access privileges for this operation

Every time I launch iTunes I get this useless error coming up:
"You do not have enough access privileges for this operation"
The apple error report is here: http://pastebin.com/CDXhALsp
I'm not too bad at understanding UNIX so this made be feel that it was a privileges issue. I made sure that everything was chowned -R correctly to my user and the correct group that makes everything else work. Not working still. I checked chmod also, and checked with apple documentation what that should be, still not working.
I then felt that instead of manually playing around with permissions I should get apple to do it for me, so I opened up Disk Utility and ran Repair Disk Permissions, still not working.
I then booted into the OSX live CD, did a Repair Disk, rebooted, still not working.
I then found some official Apple documentation on how to completely uninstall and reinstall iTunes on a Mac. I performed every step TO THE LETTER. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1224 after this lengthy process I reinstalled iTunes to find that it is still not working.
I've also tried the command open /Applications/iTunes.app and done that with sudo to get around any permission issues, still not working.
Seriously Apple, people shouldn't have to be a power user to launch iTunes or read an error report. What's wrong with this?

Ok I found the answer:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1277
From here:
http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=120797
This is really terrible programming actually. Come on Apple, IF the directory doesn't exist THEN create it after a password prompt. This is just sloppy and careless. If that's too hard then change the error message to say something useful.
The guy in the other thread has to REINSTALL OSX to get this to work because of terrible programming. This wastes tons of my time, why doesn't it "just work"?

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