ITunes re-installing Start Menu issue

I have iTunes 7 running on my PC. I start it from a quick launch icon, and the iTunes folder is in the start menu in a sub folder for organizational reasons. Every time I run iTunes it runs through an installer and re-adds a desktop icon, and an iTunes folder in the root of the Start Menu. I have been unable to stop this from occurring. Anyone know of a fix?
Imac and PC Mac OS X (10.4.7) PC Running XPSP2

I have a Mac and experience problems on it as well, though usually of a different nature from those on my Windows machine.
However, this issue IS an Apple issue. Of all the Windows programs I have used, only one other had this annoying problem of reinstalling and that was Norton Anti-Virus. I switched programs to another company to solve that problem.
Fortunately for me, there's a solution here as switching programs is not possible without losing access to my iPod.
Apple needs to fix this problem ASAP. If they expect me to buy one of the newer iPod models, something I was planning on until now, they need to think more of their users. My iPod is a few years old now and it's time to upgrade to video and photo, but if this is how Apple treats someone, I may be taking Microsoft up on their Zune player. (I wouldn't lose much as everything in my library is playable on Windows Media Player).

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I've had an iPod Nano for only a few months. iTunes worked one day, then the next it does not.
I'm running Win7, 64bit, iTunes version 10.6.0.40 (the latest).
When I attempt to launch iTunes (from the Start menu) I can see iTunes.exe briefly launch in the Task Manager. I also see AppleMobileDeviceHelper.exe and distnoted.exe in the Task Manager as well.
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I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, now on the latest version of iTunes. I've tried the Repair option in the Control Panel, I've tried running as Admin... nothing works.
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Desktop/Start Menu Icons won't stay away...

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iBod,
OK, that seems to have done the trick. I had to play around with the grid spacing – there seems to be a setting somewhere just right of the middle of the scale that enables icons to be positioned almost at the L/H edge of the desktop.
Thanks for your help. One of those ultimately unimportant but nonetheless annoying little issues.
Rob

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Additional information
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1589
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No Start Menu, removed and added User Account then no "Built In" Apps - Build 1049

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added user and was still working under the original user (also Microsoft Account). Then along came build 1049 and now the same start menu issue occurred for the original user account. So, as both were setup as admins, removed the original
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This solution correct my bug.
I had the same error in with the i-tunes installation and i did this and it worked.... This works for any i tunes that fails to install itself on 64 Bit
You have to go into your registry.
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SYSTEM
CurrentControlSet
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MSIServer
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------ By the way I dont have the WOW64 option is not available.
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but cannot do this because I cannot access Mac App Store
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