No sound in iTunes; sound everywhere else

Hello,
I recently updated my iTunes (not this most recent update, but the previous one) and when I did, it ceased to play audio. I can watch things in Quicktime, I can download music, I can sync my phone, but I have no audio coming out of it. I checked the two previous threads here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11155862&#11155862
and here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11082901&#11082901
but those solutions did not work for me. Has anyone experienced a similar problem?
Thanks,
Cat

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