ITunes seems to disable (screw up) my sound in Windows Vista

I think I've narrowed this down to iTunes specificly. Whenever I run iTunes and let it sit paused it will cause the sound in Vista to stop working with the only cure seem being a reboot.
The weird thing is that iTunes can play music all day long with no problem, IF it is actively playing music. Or it seems fine to play music and then close iTunes between use and everything continues to work. Or it can stay running and paused IF a another application is actively using the sound. But with no active sound source and iTunes in pause mode it will disable the sound at some random point. Sometimes withing thirty minutes sometimes a couple hours.
When the sound stops, it must be a conflict of some kind, because iTunes won't run the progress bar. So it's not situation of muted sound. And neither will anything else play music when this happens.
Finaly, no other paused audio application seems to make this happen. Just iTunes.
It doesn't make sense to me.

I have the exact same problem! I have seen quite a few similar posts on the net, but nobody seems to acknowledge that it is a real problem. No solutions or "let me get back to yous".

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Hello there!
I hope you are having a good day today!
My name is Austin and I hope you can assist me with a problem I am having re-installing iTunes.
Laptop: TOSHIBA Satellite L305-S5877 SYSTEM UNIT
Model No.: PSLB0U-07K02D
Windows Version: Windows Vista Home Premium - Service Pack 2 - 32-bit Operating System
The laptop belongs to a friend of mine. He contracted the MS REMOVAL TOOL virus, at which point he brought the machine to me to clean it of this virus   for him.
Following instructions I found online, I cleaned his machine of the MS REMOVAL TOOL virus.
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Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (installed and used to remove the MS REMOVAL TOOL virus)
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2011 (installed this for virus protection)
Secunia PSI (installed this to locate and patch programs that are a security risk)
Advanced SystemCare Free 4 (installed and used this to clean up registry errors and such)
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Ran Disk Defragmenter
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Updated the system drivers
Ran Checkdisk
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I have tried several times to get the installer to run, but all I get is this error message each time:
The older version of iTunes cannot be removed Contact your technical support group
After several failed attempts to get the installer to run, I went online for help. I found this article on apple.com which addressed my exact problem:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
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I have followed these instructions EXACTLY no less than 4 separate times and continue to get the same error message.
I have done manual file searches in DOS using the /s switch and by using Windows Search for anything related to:
Apple
Quicktime
iTunes
Bonjour
Apple Software Update
Apple Mobile Device Support
Apple Application Support
and made sure either they were copied to my Seagate FreeAgent Go drive or deleted completely.
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I have run a disk defragmenter after every time I followed those steps listed above but to no avail.
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I just found another article suggesting I empty the Temp folder in Vista which I did clearing it of everything related to Apple and iTunes and tried to re-install   iTunes using the iTunesSetUp.exe installer and got the same error message listed above. HELP!
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P.S. He needed his computer for the weekend, so I won't be getting it back until next Wednesday. I'm hoping to round up some suggestions so I can get       right to work on it when I get it back.
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Thank you so much,
Sincerely,
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Glad to hear that you and your family made it through relatively unscathed! I think we all need to take better care of our wonderful planet, because I think we are upsetting Mother Nature!
I have the Windows Installer Clean-Up screen up and tried to upload a screen cap for you, but IE immediately shuts down every time I try. So I'll have to transcribe the screen for you:
I see the following:
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Those are the top two lines. The following lines after that are programs he has installed on the machine like Acrobat, Adobe, Autodesk Inventor, and such and they all have a name and program number in brackets.
And I now again have the obligatory Apple programs installed and listed again:
(All Users) Apple Application Support [1.5.1]
(All Users) Apple Mobile Device Support [3.4.0.25]
(All Users) Apple Software Update [2.1.2.120]
(All Users) Bonjour [2.0.5.0]
Please note that iTunes is NOT LISTED.
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Take care, and I'll see you on the flipside! According to my clock, it's 4:11am Thursday morning there!
See ya!
- Austin

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I've downloaded process monitor and loaded it. I filtered for cmd.exe started capture and saved a 1mb file.
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