ITunes Process is Unkillable in Task Manager

If I launch iTunes right after opening Windows 8 it will run. If I close it during a Windows session it will not restart. When I look at Task Manager when iTunes is running, it shows iTunes as a running application. When I close iTunes, it disappears from the Apps area and reappears as a Background Process. Because it is not a Background Process, it won't reopen because Windows sees it as already running. End Task has no effect on it whatsoever. These are also known as Zombie processes. With iTunes process continuing to run, this has caused other associated problems such as often having to do a hard shutdown by pressing the power button, or if the machine went to sleep with iTunes running, Windows won't wake up without my first having to again do a hard shutdown. Posts on the net have explained that I/O threads are not being properly terminated in the kernel during the shutdown sequence. Taskkill /f from the command prompt also has no effect. As there are others who have reported this issue with iTunes and other software in Vista, Win7 and Win8, however, this user pool is not huge, I expect it has to do with a conflict with another driver or service. I have tried disabling Bonjour and any other Apple accessory I could find to no avail. I tried using Windows Driver Verifier, but on setting it up, it promptly crashed my machine on reboot. While I don't expect a straightforward fix, I would appreciate any leads any tech savvy users might have on how to track down the issue.
Toshiba Satellite L755D
AMD A6
8gb memory
Windows 8

What version iTunes?
Is Norton, McAfee, ZoneAlarm, etc blocking iTunes?
Check this out
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302538
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hi bummed! (you do realise that you're stuck with that alias for the forseeable future, don't you?)
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