Itunes stuck on 'updating itunes library'

I just dowloaded iTunes 7.1.1 and right after instalation i opened it and the 'updating itunes library' pop up window pops up and goes about half way and stays there. i open up the task manager and it says that itunes is not responding... any sugestions?

I am seeing similar problem on a Windows 2000 machine. After the iTunes 7.1.1 upgrade, I rebooted the machine. When I open up iTunes, it posts a progress bar saying "updaing iTunes library..." When the bar reaches about 80%, a crash occurs that says:
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iTunes.exe - Application Error
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The instruction at "0x67cd66f3" referenced memory at "0x0f32c121". The memory could not be "read".
Click on OK to terminate the program
Click on CANCEL to debug the program
=======================================================
When I select debug, it shows QuickTimeMusic.qtx!67cd66f3() on the call stack. But since I don't have the source code to debug, I couldn't guess much about what happened.
It looks like it is the same problem, though the "debug" option may not popup on some machine. But a crash is a crash.
I have over 5000 songs in my library and now I cannot even open iTunes.
Anyone has a workaround? How do I roll back to an earlier version?

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