Tried EVERYTHING, iTunes still won't run

Hi all,
I apologize for the length of this post, but i'm at the end of my rope and want to be as specific as possible, for hope that someone out there can help. I will give you my firstborn child and a massage if you can fix this. Here's the situation:
I've been using iTunes for about 5-6 years now, with no real problems at all.
One day last week (I was running 8.2.1, which had been working fine), I tried to open iTunes, and got the message "iTunes has encountered a problem and needs to close." Tried to open it again, same error message.
Bypassed the desktop shortcut and tried to open iTunes directly from the Program Files... same error message.
Rebooted, same error message.
Uninstalled-reinstalled Quicktime, same error message.
Uninstalled-reinstalled iTunes+Quicktime, same error message.
Then I did a couple of hours of research on multiple forums, including this site, but learned nothing helpful. No matter what I did the error message still came up.
Uninstalled-reinstalled iTunes+Quicktime separately, with Norton turned off, same error message.
Uninstalled iTunes, Quicktime, Apple mobile device support, Apple Software Update, reinstalled everything...same error message.
Went to the Event Viewer in Computer Management (right-click My Computer>Manage), searched for errors or warnings about iTunes, iPod, or Apple.... nothing.
Finally, tonight, performed a COMPLETE PURGE of iTunes from my computer- uninstalled iTunes, Apple Mobile Device Support, Apple Software Update, and Bonjour with the aid of Windows Install Clean-Up. Used Registry Crawler and deleted ALL entries containing "apple" and "itunes" from the registry. Used the XP search function with the little dog picture and deleted ALL "apple" and "iTunes" files (after backing up my music files). Then, confident there was NOTHING iTunes-related left, I went to the iTunes site and installed it.
After installation I opened up Task Manager to watch the Processes tab, and when I clicked "Finish" (with "Launch iTunes after installation" checked), iTunes.exe appeared in the Processes tab for a few seconds, then vanished. As usual. Tried to open it normally, and again... the dreaded error message popped up.
This is ridiculous. I work as an IT technician-I fix things like this for a living, and I cannot for the life of me figure this out! If anyone can help or has input, I would greatly, greatly appreciate it.
Thanks a bunch in advance.
Robert

Katrina-
iTunes WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was honestly wondering if I would ever be able to say that. Thank you incalcuably much. You need to let me know where to ship my firstborn child to. Here is what I did:
As much research as I had done, I hadn't really grasped that iTunes requires Quicktime to be rock-solid in order to work. Thank you for enlightening me. I searched and found a thread by polydorus that had a link on how to remove Quicktime-
Uninstall with add/remove programs (wouldn't let me- fatal error during installation came up no matter what I tried). I decided to proceed anyway. Rebooted, then deleted the quicktime folder from program files, then deleted the quicktime and quicktimeVR files from system32 folder. Then rebooted again and installed Quicktime standalone. When I double clicked the quicktime icon my jaw DROPPED when it actually opened. So with fingers crossed, I installed iTunes and LO AND BEHOLD, IT LIVES!!
If it helps anyone now or in the future, here's the thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9901375&#9901375
Thanks again so much Katrina. Now I have another, much less important question. My beloved custom equalizer presets are long gone. I figured this would happen when I started this quest about two weeks ago. When I said I had deleted ALL iTunes files from my computer awhile ago, I lied for the sake of clarity- I had backed up my entire My Music>iTunes folder on a flash drive, plus copied the entire thing into a place on the hard drive where I knew iTunes wouldn't find it and possibly get confused during installation or something. Are those EQ presets by chance stored in this folder? And is there a way to back them up in the future?
Four-hundred UPS truckloads of "Thanks!"

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