Might I have messed up my directory somehow?

Hello,
I was cleaning up (I thought) some junk on my computer. I'm not a real whiz at this...
Anyways, now when I try to use iTunes I get an error message saying "The required
directory was not found or has a permissions error. Correct this permissions
problem and try again or deauthorize this computer if the permissions cannot be
changed."
The friendly folks at iTunes customer support tried to help me. They deauthorized all computers on my account. I can log in to my Apple account with no problem, and see that there are no authorized computers. When I try to authorize, I get the message that I copied above.
They also suggested I try the Disc utility, which I have done. I clicked both verify and repair disc and it said it had done so. Still the same error message.
I fear I have deleted or moved a required directory by accident...
Can anyone help me?
Thanks
Tim

Navigate to your iTunes folder on your hard drive and do Command + i (Get Info) and make sure you have Read and Write access to the folder AND that it applies to all folders inside. (You may need to click on Details under Ownership and Permissions.)
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^
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when I change ' double tuition, fees' to ' double
tution = 0, fees =0; '
it compiles fine but when run it does not return the
right values, i'm sure its something silly like the
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