ITUNES WON'T OPEN!!!   PLEASE HELP ME I'M GOING INSANE!!

I have a dell computer.. I have Windows XP I got itunes wiht a new ipod mini in the fall. everything was going great, I even upgraded to the new itunes and everything was fine until about a month ago when it just quit on me. when I try to open itunes a message popped up that says:
itunes has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
it says I can send and error report, which I often do. It doesn't say anything of any importance: no numbers, no nothing.
I uninstalled Quicktimes and repaired itunes: didn't help.
I uninstalled and reinstalled itunes from the web 3 times: didn't help, it installed just fine, but itunes wont open.
I read another post and tried to install quick time separately, following the advice to disable all of my virus protecting stuff.. but it said it was interrupted before it was finished installing. I have a quicktime icon in the bottom right hand corner of my screen, it seems to be there on my computer but itunes still won't open.
I am at my wits end. I am not a technologically minded person and am so sick of this, however, I need my music and my ipod working and I want to download tv shows so I won't give up.
if you have any ideas please help!!!

Well, installing over the web is never a good idea
with ANY software...
have you tried disabling your security software,
downloading the installer file to your hard drive,
and running the install?
Then turn your security software back on.
I'm having the same problem with my iTunes not opening and I installed the ewido anti-malware and nothing happened to me either. I'm just wondering how you disable the security software? I'm not too sure that I have one though, because my computer crashed and I don't think we have one installed yet. Please Help! Thanks!
ViewSonic   Windows XP  

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