ITunes won't open...Still hoping I can get some advice...

Yesterday evening I posted on this forum that iTunes now will not open. I checked the forum this afternoon and my post was "buried" on page 3 with no responses. If anyone can provide some help, I would be very grateful. Here's what I posted last night:
"First time poster on the iTunes forum. Also the first time I've had any problems with iTunes. Simply put, when I click on the iTunes icon in my dock, it no longer opens to the iTunes page which has the listing of all of my songs, playlists etc. The only thing that happens is the iTunes drop down menu appears at the top of my computer screen (File, Edit, Controls, etc.) My desktop remains blank. About a year ago I moved my iTunes library to an external hard drive and never had any problems with that. I checked the hard drive, and it appears to be functioning (I have iMovie files on it as well and they opened without any problem.) Anyone have an idea of what might have happened and how I could possibly troubleshoot the problem? Thanks in advance."
I tried trashing the iTunes plist, emptied the trash and did a restart. No effect. Should I reinstall iTunes from my iLife 06 disk? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Message was edited by: scooper

I'm having the same problem I searched the apple troubleshooting, didn't work what they had said. And no info in the forums. Please help!!!!

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