Questions on Reinstalling iTunes

I know how to remove itunes, but if I reinstall itunes will the music stay in itunes or do I have to reimport everything. If I have to reimport everything is there any way to make it easy.
Please help me. I will give out points.

Hello GPAdult,
No, uninstalling iTunes, will have no effect on the music because your music is stored elsewhere (most likely your Music folder). I have uninstalled and re-installed a few times and never had any problems.
Upon re-installing iTunes will locate this Music folder and re-import everything that is located inside of it automatically.
B-rock
Message was edited by: planb77

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Man I hear your pain, same happened to me. I never worked out a way of deleting all the duplicates and I'm guessing it occured as you imported your library more than once.
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b repair install.
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Hudgie, "Taking screenshots to help with problems.", 12:04pm Apr 19, 2005 CDT
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Buegie, ""reinstall iTunes" consequences" #1, 05:49pm Sep 2, 2005 CDT
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Apple Mobile Device Driver 1.59.0.0
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Gracenote MusicID 1.9.6.115
Gracenote Submit 1.9.6.143
Gracenote DSP 1.9.6.45
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ATI Technologies Inc., AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250
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iTunes for Windows: "Error 7" message when opening iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3074
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1926
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
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