WinRar is the answer

still cant get mine to install

wait and how did u do it? im using zipgenious, a similar program to winrar but it doesn't seem to open up.

no wait i got it, thanks a bunch

I just downloaded it and did exactly as you said. And I still get:
"iTunes has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
I have the same problem with anything after 4.7. Apple eventually told me to reformat my hard drive, which I did, then reinstalled 4.7 and it worked great. Now I want to use 6 and I it crashes EVERYTIME it opens! I swear, do they expect us to REFORMAT our HARD DRIVES for each and every VERSION of iTunes?!?!?! This is horrible!
I've had my iPod for 3 years now!

hi David!

I just downloaded it and did exactly as you said. And I still get:

"iTunes has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
I have the same problem with anything after 4.7.

if this has been hitting you on
b every install since 4.7,
we need to check for a rare weird registry/user-account problem that has been hitting people on installs since 4.7 and produces the same error message.

here's how we diagnose that. go into your "user accounts" control panel and
b create a new user account with full administrative privileges.
(there's help documentation on how to do that to the left of the control panel screen.) while you're in the control panel, switch off "fast user switching" in your logging-on preferences.

now log out of the old account and log in to the new account. can you successfully launch itunes from inside there?

keep us posted.

love, b

Does WinRAR actually fix it? Is it a free download because the one I found isnt? Not sure if its the right program

actually...what happened if the computer has actually screwed up and erased your original iTunes? in that case this doesnt seem to work

WinRAR is not the answer for me. It did not work here. I got version 3.51 from download.com. I get the exact same results.

Phil