ITunes won't open yet it is playing

I hope someone can help me. I had just loaded a CD onto iTunes and had put the name and album title into the "get information" section, then I went to load another CD and now I can't find it anywhere. When I click on the logo/link it doesn't do anything at all. I tried to do a RUN: itunes.exe and nothing happened.
All the while the music is playing so I know it's someplace on this computer.
Is there some other way to open it up again?
Thanks,
Julie

Have you tried force quitting?
Cmd + Option (Alt) + Esc
Or a hard reset: hold down the power button until the machine turns off and then turn it on again.

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say?
or are you getting no error messages whatsoever? if
so, could you let us know the results of the
following observations?
reboot your PC. open Task Manager to the Processes
Tab. now try to launch itunes again.
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so, does it persist in there, or does it disappear
after a few seconds?
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