ITunes won't start (audio configuration problem)

Hi all,
I have been using iTunes for a few months without problems.
Last week, all of a sudden, it gave me an error message every time I tried to open it: "iTunes cannot run because it has detected a problem with your audio configuration".
I don't know what happened as I didn't do anything to the controls in my computer. The only thing is that I downloaded a video from Google, and this prompted me to download the Google Video Player, now installed in my computer.
Could this have anything to do with the audio configurations? How can I reset them to their original state so I can use iTunes? Should I uninstall the google player?
Thanks a ton for any help and sorry for the long post.
Juan

This error message is usually duw to a quicktime problem, see:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304424

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