ITunes won't launch after running Disk Slim

In an attempt to regain some free space on the hard drive of my Intel iMac, I ran the “Drive Slim” application contained in the Drive Genius 3 suite of applications. It was set to find, and remove, all Universal Binaries (non-Intel Support) items and all Cache/Temporary Items (not accessed in the last 14 days).
When the application had completed the task of finding and removing these files, I rebooted to find that iTunes could no longer be opened. When I click on the dock icon for iTunes 9.1.1, the icon bounces 5 times and nothing happens – no even an error message. Because iTunes opened before I performed the Drive Slim operation I am pretty certain that an item was removed that is required for the proper functioning of iTunes. I did a clean install of the Snow Leopard System Software and of the iTunes 9.1.1 application and it still will not launch.
Please help me understand - short of a complete backup restore (because I will lose about a month of data!) - what I can do to correct this issue.

I got in touch with Drive Genius tech support (you'll have to call, they are 'backed up' and aren't answering email).
The analyst was good. Got my info, told me he'd be in touch with engineering and would be back in touch.
He got back to me in about an hour with a suggested solution that worked.
De-install flip4mac and reinstall it.
That's all it took for me. I hope this works for anyone else with the problem.

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