My iTunes is totally jammed up.

Our iTunes is unresponsive. We tried shutting down and restarting, but it does not respond to anything. Any thoughts?

k thanks for replying
i went control panel etc and tries to uninstall quicktime: i get the installshield wizard loads up for a second and then disappears and then nothing. i keep trying to uninstall quicktime but i get the same thing. rite when i try to uninstall itunes i get an error saying 'A later version of itunes is installed on this machine. installation cannot continue'.
like in my post earlier it says that my itunes in the add remove programs section is itunes 6.5.0.20
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