ITunes menu items

I installed Snow Leopard and I'm not able to use ANY of the menu items in iTunes. Even to quit I have to do so from the Dock. I've been having the same problem with non-Apple apps but I didn't expect any problem with Apple apps after installing 10.6. Any thoughts?

Hi,
I have the same problem but it only seems to be in iTunes. I have had it working temporarily and seemed to coincide with removing the itunes cache.db file and a goog-phish-shavar.dat file (seems to be a google safe search file but not sure why it's in there) but after restarting the app it stopped working again. I also don't have any contextual menus, they just don't appear.
My system and iTunes are all up to date (iTunes 9.02). It must be due to something in my user account as iTunes works fine in other accounts on my MBP.

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          AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.06 - SDK 10.6 Support
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          JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 55 Check version
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          Keeeb : Version: 1.2.17
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