New iTunes: Big Problems

Question

I bit the bullet this week and downloaded Mountain Lion and the new iTunes. Mountain Lion was a piece of cake, but iTunes is causing me no end of problems; in fact I have been swearing at my computer for a couple of days in frustration. I'll detail my concerns:
1. I use iTunes most days to compile playlists for a radio station. I burn the playlists to CD and copy the written info to a Pages document to use as a script. In the new iTunes I can no longer Command A, Command C and Command V to paste the data into Pages. It just won't do it. When I Select All and drag the data, it now drags the actual files into Pages rather than the data. To work around this issue, I had to copy each file to Pages individually which took about 15 mins instead of the usual 10 seconds. How is this an improvement?
How can I just copy the written data info into a document?
2. I can no longer drag individual items from a play list into a new playlist or an existing playlist. Yes, I know this is a NEW iTunes but did they have to change everything? And for what reason?
For the first time in 12 years as an Apple customer, I have come across a product that doesn't make it in the intuitive stakes. This new model reminds me of a Windows product; nothing works logically.
Please tell me is isn't just me having these issues and if you can help with the above problems I would be very grateful.
Apples

Answer 1

When you get these error messages, you need to try using The Microsoft Installer Cleanup Utility to clean up your installer files.
Here is a method:
== uninstall with cleanup ==
Download a fresh copy of iTunes and the stand alone version of Quicktime (the one without iTunes)
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Download and install Microsoft Installer cleanup utility, there are instructions on the page as well as the download. Note that what you download is the installer not the program – you have to run it to install the program. The installer doesn't give any message to confirm the installation.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301/
(To run the program – All Programs>>Windows Install)
Now use the following method to remove iTunes and its components:
XP
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1925
Vista
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
*If you hit a problem with one of the uninstalls don't worry*, carry on with the deleting of files and folders as directed in the method.
When you get to deleting Quicktime files in the system32 folder as advised in the method, you can delete any file or folder with Quicktime in the name.
Restart your PC.
Run the Microsoft Installer Cleanup Utility. (Start > All Programs > Windows Install Clean Up)
Remove any references you find to the programs you removed - strictly speaking you only need to worry about those programs where the uninstall failed.
If you don’t see an entry for one of the programs that did not uninstall, look out for blank entries or numeric entries that look like version numbers e.g. 7.x for Quicktime or 1.x for Bonjour.
restart your PC
Install the stand alone Quicktime and check that it works.
If it does, install iTunes.
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