Itunes will not launch at all

For a few weeks I've been having a problem with iTunes taking a long time to open, and sometimes not opening when I plug in the phone.  Last week I realized  just stopped opening at all - even by double clicking on the itunes exe file in Control Panel.   When I plug in my iPhone 4S to the USB, iTunes also does not open, but I can see the phone in Windows Explorer.  I'm running Windows 7 32-bit on a Dell laptop, and iTunes is 10.6.3.25.  I do not use wifi to synch the phone.
I searched online and at first thought it was due to a Google Chrome flash plug-in problem because Chrome had started failing to load some pages and sometimes iTunes would eventually open if Chrome was restarted.   I reinstalled Chrome, and finally just uninstalled Google Chrome, but that's made no difference.  I uninstalled Bonjour as some folks had problems from that. 
I have already tried to identify if some service is trying to run by looking at the msconfig and trying to turn off things on the Startup and turn off Services, but even with everything but Windows services turned off, iTunes still will not ever open. 
I've uninstalled and re-installed iTunes and Quicktime at least 5 times over the last few days.  I used revouninstaller to do the last two un-installs as a friend said it cleans more thoroughly.   I just read here to try renaming the APSDaemon so it won't run, and just did that change, but after rebooting still no luck.  Quicktime will run, but it takes about 1-2 minutes before it opens after double-clicking on it. 
At this point I don't know what else to try.  All suggestions greatly appreciated.  Thanks! 

Thanks.  I read that link before posting here but I wasn't able to do the first part because iTunes will not ever open for me to start it in Safe mode. 
Since I posted yesterday, "something" I did must have worked (but I don't know what exactly because I think I didn't do anything).  But iTunes just randomly appeared on the system tray yesterday afternoon.  It wouldn't open by clicking on it, so I tried to Ctl-Alt-Del to close it, thinking I'd at least get some errors to view in the log, but then about a half hour after  I had tried to close it through Ctl-Alt-Del, it actually opened.  It still doesn't recognize my iPhone 4S though.  If I get that to start working I'll update again. 

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