ITunes, Vista 64-bit, Black screen

I recently purchased a new PC which came with Vista 64-bit. I installed iTunes and when I open the application the iTune window is black. I have found several thigns online about disabling desktop compsition, switch then makes the entire screen green when I open the iTunes application.
Is this a known issue with iTunes and Vista? Is there a fix?

Well I have an update. I uninstalled MS Office and still had the black screen issue with iTunes. Resizing did not help, Turning off DEP had no effect.
To make a long story short. I found a utility I had installed from the Samsung T260 monitor CD was causing my Problem. I disabled MultiScreen in the start up configuration (msconfig from the Command prompt).
iTunes (including the new version 8) has not had the black screen since I disabled (and then uninstalled) MultiScreen.
I do not know if there is an update to MultiScreen - I don't use it anyway.
Neilapril - this has worked for me... I hope it does the same for you.

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