Itunes won't run after upgrade

I upgraded to the latest iTunes (10.6), but when I click on the icon I get an error message that says it can't open my iTunes library because it was created by a newer version of iTunes. How is that even possible if I just upgraded?
Now I can't get it to open at all, even after uninstalling/installing and restarting several times.
Please help!

When I install the latest iTunes it will not run the application even though the process is running.
I'm more familiar with trying to fix this sort of thing on XP, rather than 7 (or even Vista), but there's a few basic things we should check on.
Reboot the PC (to kill your running iTunes.exe process as naturally as possible). Now head into your firewall, and check the rules. Is iTunes being allowed full access to the Internet? If not amend the rule. If it is, try deleting the existing rule and creating a new one (allowing full access to the internet) for iTunes.
Having done that, reboot the PC and try launching iTunes again. Any better luck this time?

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Sorted! Panic over. I ran the download again and everythin seems OK.

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