Upgrade to Vista and Sync

I have just upgraded to windows Vista Home edition. My Itunes will not fully sync with my Video Ipod. My error message is: Itunes could not write to disk because I do not have access priviledges.
Most of my orginal stuff is there but non of my purchased music will sync.
Craig

I can't believe there aren't more complaints like yours. I was able to transfer my purchased Itunes to my new Vista machine after I installed 7.1.1 to the new machine (running Vista Premium Home Media Center...whatever.
Gotta say that I like the way Itunes and Windows Media Player sort it out on Windows XP much better than on Vista. Everytime I launch Windows Media Player on Vista machine, as in to watch HDTV or play non-itunes stuff, Itunes launches anyway.
I know Microsoft probably doesn't care about this problem, but the programs should be able to work without stepping on each other.
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Yes I still have a problem. This is what it is in a nutshell. With User Account Control on in vista I can't open itunes. I am not sure what happens when I try but here goes. First I have installed itunes into my computer and have an icon on my desktop. When I click on that icon the first thing that happens is that I get a licenses agreement which I accept. As soon as I accept the agreement it goes away and I get an error message that says “The folder Itunes is on a locked disk or you do not have write permissions for this folder." The only option that the error message gives me is to say “OK”. When I click on the OK button on the error message it goes away and nothing else happens. Because of this problem I have uninstalled and installed itunes at least 5 times.
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