ITunes v. 6 won't open after previous tips

Hi all,
I upgraded my itunes and now it won't open. I've read all of the other postings and I've updated my NIS, deleted my unstable file, tried running iTunes without my firewall...I got nothing.
I get no error messages, nothing shows up in my task manager, I've tried un-installing and re-installing the program, but nothing is working.
Does anyone have any other advice? Is this one of those things that the apple store help people would fix?

Hey guys.
Pretty complicated fix, but i got this one off someone in here, and although it took some time and effort, i'm back up and running on itunes.
http://mysite.verizon.net/dbjcgj/id1.html
Hope this helps all>>>>>

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