Trouble getting iTunes to open..

Our PC's hardrive crashed about a few weeks ago and we had it replaced. My mom's friend who put the new hardrive in the computer downloaded the newest version of iTunes when he was putting our programs and such on the new hardrive. I got my iPod Nano for Christmas, and it came with the previous version of iTunes.
With the new version, I couldn't synch songs to my iPod no matter what I tried, so I gave up and decided to uninstall the new version and reinstall the version that came with my iPod. It said it installed successfully and I restarted the computer. When I tried to open it, I got the iTunes Software Licensing Agreement, so I clicked the 'Agree' button, then I got an error code that says, "The file 'iTunes Library.itl' cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes." I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it once more and had the same issue.
Help!

It said it installed successfully and I restarted the computer. When I tried to open it, I got the iTunes Software Licensing Agreement, so I clicked the 'Agree' button, then I got an error code that says, "The file 'iTunes Library.itl' cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes."
this post might be of some assistance with that:
b noir: Re: How can i access my itunes library now ive gone back to 6.5 from 7?

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