What to do?! "iTunes has encountered a problem and needs to close"

Hi all,
I am on the verge of ripping my hair out!!! I upgraded my sisters itunes to version 9.0. The upload was successful and itunes opens, HOWEVER this error appears after about 15 seconds **iTunes has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.**
I have done the following things:
- uninstalled itunes and all affiliates associated with it
- re-installed itunes
- - uninstalled itunes and all affiliates associated with it then rebooted teh laptop, then re-stalled again.
I have done this SEVERAL times and it is sending me round the bend!!!!
Can someone please help??????

*Replying to whitepine:*
Fair enough about taking some time away from this.
When you get back to it, if just *swapping out* your Apple Application Support (AAS) doesn't help, we'll try upgrading your AAS version. I'll give you instructions on that now
I'm pretty sure you've got an AAS version 1.0.1 on your PC, but to check, the easiest way is to go into "Add or Remove Programs", select "Apple Application Support" and click "Support Information". Last time I checked, the iTunes 9.0.2.25 installer bundle included an AAS 1.0.1.
However, the *Safari for Windows version 4.0.4* installer bundle contains *AAS version 1.1.0* ... the later version of AAS contains later versions of a bunch of the dlls, including corefoundation.dll. (My corefoundation.dll version number is 1.544.19.0.) And I've seen updating the AAS version to 1.1.0 help with a couple of other iTunes crashes so far.
There are a number of options for going about upgrading your AAS version.
*If you already have Safari for Windows:* Upgrade to version 4.0.4.
*If you don't have Safari for Windows but wouldn't mind having it:* Install Safari 4.0.4.
http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
*If you don't have SfW and don't want it*, there's a couple of options I can think of:
(1) Install SfW 4.0.4 and then uninstall it (you'll have still updated your AAS to the newer version in the course of doing the install).
(2) In Apple Software Update for Windows ("Start > All programs > Apple Software Update"), go "Tools > Open Downloaded Updates Folder". Delete any files currently in there. Now check SfW 4.0.4 in the list in Apple Software Update, and go "Tools > Download only". After the download completes, go back into the Downloaded Updates folder, and double-click on the AppleApplicationSupport.msi file to do a "standalone" AAS install.

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