Why doesn't iTunes appear in system tray???

I never had this problem before installing iTunes 5.0 (at least not with iTunes, I did have the same problem with a lesser known program called Music Editor), I double click on it and nothing. The only place anything appears is in the Processes menu in Ctrl-Alt-Del, where it lists all the programs it is running, it just has iTunes.exe. Besides that, nothing. Can't end the task under Ctrl-Alt-Del, it just stays there, Can't try again, nothing happens. Can somebody please help me and explain why this happens and how to fix it? Btw, I have since got rid of 5.0 & quicktime 7 and bonjour, reinstalled 4.9 and quicktime 6, but the exact same thing happens.

how in the world would i do that? it comes standard on the hard drive and i don't want to reset it to factory settings (although it does have that). I have tried system restore (it takes you back to a previous point when things worked correctly) but it keeps saying it can't go back because nothing is different. arrgh. frustrating. can i put on windows xp again without resetting everything? and how so? ty

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