ITunes page is pink..words Library, Store, and Playlists all blurry

recently all my music on itunes was deleted but i was able to load all of my music back onto the itunes itself, being that it was still saved on my hard drive, but the itunes page is pink...then i maximize and it turns white (normal), but then i restore down the window and it goes pink again...and the category words...Library..Store..and Playlists are all blurry...this makes me think something is wrong with the itunes. i have tried deleting the itunes program and reinstalling many times and it wont fix the problem...this all happened after i did that "genius" crap..on the latest version. i even tried installing a previous version of itunes and i got an error message saying "file *blank blank* was created with a newer version of itunes"...or something like that, and it wouldnt even let me access itunes.
so i had to reload the laterst version again with the "genius" thing...and now i have a pink screen with blurry words..
any suggestions?

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Right click in the Desktop, select Properties>>Settings.
I am not clear where you stand with the other issues your raised.

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