ITunes startup error message (strange & seemingly very rare!)

Hello,
I get a strange error message when I start iTunes on my Windows Vista Ultimate machine :
"*A folder was specified instead of a file*".
That's it. After dismissing the message, everything works fine. This is a brand new behaviour. It just happened suddenly.
Of course I tried a few reinstalls, deleting the prefs file, the iPhone file, etc., to no avail.
Thanks for your time!
Olrik

Hmmmm. That's certainly fairly exotic.
I'm wondering here if this is an issue with iTunes having difficulty finding your library file.
The default location for the iTunes library file on Vista (where <username> is the name of your usual Vista user account) is in:
C:\Users\<username>\Music\iTunes\
So if you hold down shift when opening iTunes and then click "choose library", as per the following document:
How to open an alternate iTunes Library file or create a new one
... and select your default .itl file, can you launch without that message?
If so, does iTunes launch without that message on subsequent launch attempts?

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