Windows won't let me update iTunes

I am running a Windows VMFusion OS on my Mac, and until recently it has operated flawlessly.  Recently, however, it stopped allowing me to update iTunes, and now my iPhone won't connect to the Windows OS.  No problems at all connecting to the Mac OS. 
I'm running Windows XP.
Anyone run into this?
So far I've tried to update via the Help menu on iTunes and I've downloaded a fresh iTunes .exe from the Apple website.  Neither works... in fact, nothing happens at all.  I've checked processes and the iTunes-specific processes are running.  I stopped them and restarted them just for grins, but no dice.

Update - I just downloaded and installed the latest version of Quicktime.  No difference.  
I used msconfig to turn off all non-Microsoft services unrelated to iTunes and Quicktime, as well as all start-up items.  No difference.
I brought up Task Manager and watched to see if iTunes showed up anywhere when I attempted to install the program.  It did not.

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