Trouble uninstalling iTunes 11 on Windows 7

I'm trying unsuccessfully to uninstall iTunes 11 from my PC laptop; I want to go back to iTunes 10.7 (for the cover flow, of course).
When I try to click "uninstall" in Control Panel, it says "Error opening installation log file. Verify that the specified log file location exists and that you can write to it."
I don't know what that means; I'm not super computer savvy so I don't know how to manually uninstall. Nor does iTunes come with its own uninstallation file.
More info: I just installed the new iTunes today. I made sure it isn't running (neither is Quicktime or any other Apple product). Please, someone help me.

I found this - but is it really this complicated?
https://discussions.apple.com/message/20482366#20482366
Itunes is now useless to me. What a disaster

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