ITunes won't open and i've tried everything!

Hi there,
when i try to open itunes on my windows pc i get a message saying 'the folder "itunes" cannot be found or created, and is required. the default location for this folder is inside the "my music" folder.'
my laptop was running out of space, so i moved my itunes library onto an external harddrive. when i next turned on my pc and tried to open itunes this was when i started getting the above message. i moved the libary back into the same place on my laptop's harddisk as before, but to no avail. when i pasted the files back, however, i noticed that the folder was no longer called 'my music' but 'eddy's music' (my username on the laptop, and i am the only user). my laptop isn't allowing my to rename it.
i tried the TweakUI method suggested in the support pages but neither "my music" nor "eddy's music" appeared in the list in the special folders section. i then removed and re-installed itunes but this did not work. finally, i tried moving the library files and folders around, but again this did not work.
what else can i try?
many thanks in advance.

See this post if My Music is not in the list of special folders in TweakUI:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1731188&#1731188
ALternatively you may be able to work round this by doing a shift key start.
Hold down the shift key and start iTunes, keep holding the shift key until you are asked to choose a library. Navigate to your iTunes folder and choose iTunes Library.itl. You can create a library if you don't already have one.

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