ITunes won't open, different from other problems

Yeah. I don't have Norton (I do have the windwows firewall and stuff, but I already have it on the allowed list) and I've tried deleting the file. I double click on iTunes (I've even tried from the actual .exe file in the program files) and I get the hourglass, and nothing more. The processes for iPodService and iTunesHelper are running, but no iTunes. I tried using the New Tastk (run...) feature on the Task Manager, and the iTunes.exe process comes up for a few brief seconds and then goes away again. Any ideas? I've also re-installed it...
And on a side note, since I re-installed it, will I have to redo all of my playlists? If so, man there's a headache to go on top of finals... :-/

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