Windows installer blocks itunes upgrades

Bought an Iphone 4s.  Had to upgrade Itunes on my Windows 7 Dell.  The upgrade loaded that stopped with this error message:
"Problem with Windows installer package.   A program required for this install could not be run."
Removed Q and Itunes and reloaded.  Still getting the error.
Any ideas???

Okay, I ran the disk check and tried to launch iTunes again. I ran into the same problem, so I checked the Task Manager and ipodservice.exe was not running. I downloaded and tried to install version 8.2 of iTunes, and I get the same issue.
Then I went to the file on my hard drive. Every time I try to rename, move, or delete ipodservice.exe I am now getting a message that says:
Cannot move iPodService: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
So now I am stuck again. It seems when like iTunesSetup is able to install iTunes, but the the iPodService.exe causes problems when installing Quicktime. Since I can't finish the install, it rolls everything back and I cannot get iTunes to install on the machine. Suggestions?

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