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Hi everyone,
I haven't been using iTunes on my PC (Windows 7 x64, ATI Radeon 5770 X2 CF) for a while (I've been pretty much exclusively using it on my Macbook Pro over the past year) and so I have only opened it rather sporadically, just keeping it updated and occasionally playing a few songs. Having decided to switch back to Windows now, however, I decided to check the library settings so I could see how iTunes would handle importing my library files copied from my MBP. Instead, however, I was confronted with a completely blank window with just a "?" button, "OK" button and "Cancel" button. Clicking the "?" freezes and crashes the application while OK and Cancel simply close the window.
Here is a picture of it for reference (hopefully these forums allow hotlinking): http://i.imgur.com/1DnpZ.png
Now, I've tried a fair few things before coming here in hopes of solving the problem, even though there hasn't been a lot of relevant results when searching for this problem via Google. I've tried completely removing iTunes (following Apple's procedures for complete removal including checking the 64-bit Windows locations), I've tried checking my font files, and I've checked dxdiag. All of my drivers are up to date, and I haven't been experiencing problems in other applications (well, funnily enough, the Preferences option in Evernote refuses to open any window at all, although I doubt there's a link).
As you can see, what started off as wanting to play some music on the loudspeakers while I do a cleanup of the house has turned into a bit of a good old troubleshooting session lasting several hours. After trying the most common solutions, I'm out of ideas. Can anyone here think of anything that might help, or has anyone faced and overcome the same problem in the past?
Chris
Edit: Oh, and I just tried creating a new Windows user account to ensure that it wasn't a problem local to this account only, and it has the same issue.
Message was edited by: ChrisPWill

I'm guessing it's something to do with the registry, although I haven't done anything strange since the last time I formatted my computer. It reeks of bad coding for the software to be having problems like this on an untouched windows installation. Obviously this is a rare issue seeing as I've only found a few examples of similar issues. If anyone can think of anything I should try, short of reinstalling Windows, please do let me know.

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