Itunes won't play any media since upgrading to 10.6.3

I have had my laptop since christmas last year and recently had virus issues so I restored my computer from a back-up and it cleared that problem, but about a week after the restore I noticed iTunes stopped playing media, it would say it is playing but the bar on the song wouldn't move and stayed at 0:00, after that I uninstalled it and reinstalled the program to realize I still have the same issue and this happened a month or so since updating to iTunes 10.6.3. Next I noticed Windows Media Player and other programs like iMesh keep encountering errors while trying to play media files. Thinking this is related to the system/software restore, I restored the software to an even earlier date (7/22/12) and still have this issue. My speakers work fine and youtube plays perfectly as do system sounds for notifications an anything else, but what can cause only these media players to not play anything and say something is playing but the timer isn't movine? I first noticed nothing was playing when I was recording a video and I went to play it back and had no audio with and without headphones..... I hope someone has an easy fix for this, or atleast the iTunes portion of my issue....

Do you have the latest version of iTunes? A good place to post is either the iTunes forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=153
or the iPhone forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=201

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