ITunes wants to start up - but doesn't...

Hey there.
Today my iTunes decided to misbehave - here's what's happening:
Whenever I try to launch iTunes - it looks like it wants to launch - but nothing comes up on the screen.
If I look in the dock - iTunes seems to be running - and it gives me the options of "Force quitting" - yet nothing appears on my desktop.
If I put my ipod into the dock - the ipod shows up on the desktop - but still no iTunes.
So far I have done the following:
1. Ran the Disk Utility & repaired permissions
2. Ran Disk Warrior & rebuilt the directory
3. Removed iTunes & re installed it (the latest version).
4. Rebooted, rebooted, rebooted...
Nothing seems to be working.
When I try to shut the system down - it hangs & waits for me to "Force Quit" iTunes (only if I had tried to launch it previously). As soon as I "Force Quit" iTunes - eveything else proceeds as normal.
I'm open to suggestions.
Thanks,
SparkyCanada
I have also done all the software updates that are out there.
My machine is a QS 867 with 1.5 Gig ram
Running OSX 10.3

Just thought I'd let ya know I found the problem - in case anyone else has this issue here.
It was an issue with Digidesign & iTunes/Quicktime.
I needed to update a Core Audio Driver - so that things would be happy with the latest versions of iTunes & Quicktime.
I went to Digidesign's web site - over to the support section - then to the download section & found the latest Core Audio Driver for my system - installed the driver - rebooted - clicked on iTunes & life was good again.
Thanks to Google!
Later,
SparkyCanada

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