ITunes won't load into my system, requires Administrator, I am the Administrator, what do I do?

I uninstalled iTunes because it kept shutting down. I figured the best thing was to start over. After uninstalling iTunes, when I went to load the newest version 10.5 it wouldn't finish the installation telling me to log on as the administrator. I'm the only one on this system and am the administrator. What do I do now?

Hi Iwaterusa, yep I'm having the same problem, all of a sudden, itunes wouldn't sync with my iphone and keep shutting down, read in othe sugguestions was to delete itunes and re download, but you have to unistall all programs on your list that has itune support.
I tried it & it downloaded but still playing up, going to try and download a previous version, 10.5 seems to have a few problems.

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Message was edited by: Auntie Ed

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