ITunes only opens when shift key is held

Last week iTunes started acting up and would not open. The service starts but that is it. I have tried just about everything I have found here in the forums. The difficult part is I don't get any pop up messages to help. The only way I have managed to get iTunes to open is to hold the shift key down and select the library file i want to use. I have to do this every time I open iTunes.

What's the OS version?
As a test to better isolate the cause, create a new admin user account in System Preferences Accounts pane.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8235.html
Log out and log in to the new account. Does this problem recur in the new account? If not, the problem is caused by something in the normal account. It is probably a user setting, in this case. Are you sure it is not the current setting +Exposé - Show Desktop+ being set to use the Right Shift key?

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