Skype attempted update, now skype won't boot up.

I'm really pissed off right now. In the middle of a group chat my skype started updating and then it gave me the windows alert "Skype has stopped working". As a natural reaction I hit cancel and then went to boot up the program again. Then it said something about how there isn't room on my disk drive for an update (I have over 200gbs worth of space left." I tried uninstalling my current version of skype, 6.22. At first it gave me a problem about how there was no space on my drive/temp folder (again) and I spent about half an hour trying to fix it. Then I tried it a few minutes ago saying there was a problem with the package itself trying to uninstall it. I need help ASAP please.

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