ITunes shuts down within 1 minute

For several days now I've been unable to use iTunes at all. At first it would shut down whenever I tried to dock my Shuffle, and give me the error message and ask if I wanted to report the problem to Apple. Then it stopped even giving me any message and just shut the program down, even if I didn't do anything in the program, within about a minute.
I've been reading this forum and tried some of the tips: trashing the Cache folder, deleting iTunes-related plist files. I even deleted iTunes completely and installed version 7.0. It didn't help.
This problem started when Software Update downloaded both the latest Tiger update and iTunes 7.1.1. As such, I'm not sure which of those elements caused the problem. I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks!

If you've tried everything with iTunes, then try downloading the appropriate Tiger Combo 10.4.9 update from here:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
It's a large file to download, but sometimes running the combo updates fixes a slew of issues, reaad this article
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030303145608100&query=combo%2Bupd ates

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