Wordless error message, then failure to open

Help! iTunes is doing something odd. I try to open the program and what I get is what looks like an error box. However, what is in the box is the following: an exclamation mark inside of a "STOP" sign and the iTunes icon on the left, a blue "OK" button on the right- and NO WORDS. What kind of error is this? It won't even tell me. I click OK because that is the only option and the program then fails to open. Nobody seems to know what is going on so this is a good challenge for you experts. Please help! Thank you.

Thank you all! I followed your advice from this forum and here is what worked: I completely deinstalled iTunes, throwing away everything but my music files (I dragged them to the desktop before erasing iTunes). Restarted. Inserted iLife '06 disk that came with my PowerBook G4. Chose to "custom install" and deselected all programs (it didn't even let me choose to install iTunes, which I found curious but had a "it must be for a good reason" attitude). Finished that (under 1 minute) and got the message- would you like to download the newest version of iTunes? Yes. Did that. So now I had iTunes- but how to import my music files to it, I wondered? Couldn't find that answer, so had a brand-new iTunes with none of my music. Poked around, tried putting the music folder back in Users-iTunes but still nothing happened and iTunes didn't see my music. Hm. This next part is something I figured out on my own because I couldn't find the answer anywhere. This is a Mac, it must be intuitive, so I did what seemed logical and opened my hard drive-Users-my account-Library-Users-iTunes-iTunes Music and did command A (Select All), selecting all music files, and I dragged them to the Library of iTunes. Result? The computer is at this moment copying all of my music into the Library of iTunes. Thank you, Mac, for creating a computer which is intuitive! Success!
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