Vista + iTunes = Insane-O

I just bought a new Dell laptop and installed iTunes 8 on it. Since my previous laptop had Vista and I had no troubles, I didn't think it was going to be an issue. First of all, the iTunes store not work correctly - when I would click on a song sample, it would scroll through all of the songs and play one second of each. Then my songs in iTunes did the exact same thing. I still have not been able to get iTunes to play one song. I've looked around to see if anyone else has had this problem of iTunes going insane-O, but I haven't yet.
If anyone has any insight into this problem, I would be very glad to hear it.
Thank you,
Sally

Hi,
There is no mention of Service Pack in the Systems section
System Type is 32 bit operation system
Is there any other alternative upgrade from upgrading the Vista ?
Thanks
Liahs

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