My Itunes library can't be found

I wanted to start itunes the other day and it came up with the message "the folder itunes cannot be found or created and is required. the default location for this folder is inside the My Music folder". I looked in this folder and tried to open the library but it was not possible.
I then tried to manually open itunes and it came up that itunes.itl (file extension) could not be found.
Has anybody got any suggestions.
regards,
sony viao VGN-T1XP Windows XP Pro

Then iTUnes might of got corrupted, try removing iTUnes AND quciktime from control panel>add/remove. (If it doesn't remove goto the next step below anyways)
Now you will goto this link and roll down to "Clean up iTunes installer files on the computer" and follow the steps. if in windows cleaner you don't see iTUnes and quicktime listed this will be normal if you removed it from control panel. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93976
After all this DISABLE any antivirus/security/notron/mcafee products Goto www,apple.com and download the latest iTUnes and install it. (Installing iTUnes will also install quicktime again, iTUnes needs quicktime to function correctly)

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