Multiple iTunes Issues - Awful, awful Program

I have a brand new iMac and iTunes is ruining my experience.
1) Each time i start the app it thinks it is brand new and will not save any of my settings or windows. I get the Welcome screen each time.
2) If I do not start it, it will eventually start iteslf and then Not Respond. It is active in the dock and in the activity monitor, but it will not force quit in any way. I need to hold down the power button to kill power to the mac.
I have tried -
deleteing preferences and restarting
fixing permissions
removing the helper app from the user log in
resetting the PRAM
reinstalling iTunes from a download
NONE of these have any effect.

Nevermind all. I found this tutorial on how to downgrade to 10.7, which solved the issue.
http://www.emacconsulting.com/apple/itunes/downgrade-itunes-11-to-itunes-10-7/
iTunes 11 remains an awful, awful program. Shame on you Apple.

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We have three people in our family, each with their own iPod/iphone, we sync our iPod/iphone on the same computer but in different ‘user accounts’ in xp.
Now the problem is ; only one iTunes program can run at a time, so if one person is downloading a podcast and another logs into their user account then they can’t open iTunes because it is open in another user account already.
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Welcome to AD!
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Confused about multiple iTunes on same computer

Hiya- I've read as much as I can on multiple iTunes/libraries/accounts and I'm even more confused.
I have one drive partition with all my music which I use as my iTunes library. My wife and I each have our own Windows logins/accounts and access iTunes from each account (sharing the same music folder). This is what I want to do: when I add newly-acquired music to iTunes on my Windows account (i.e. drag new albums onto iTunes and have it copied to iTunes library), I want my wife's iTunes to automatically update its library to see the new albums I've added.
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Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
As I see it the scenario is this:
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Can anyone help me? The iTunes update corrupted my program. I uninstalled, and then reinstalled iTunes; only to find an error message about iTunes Helper. After several fruitless, repeat attempts, I am at a loss. Please help-

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[code]
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\PersistentHandler]
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