I often wondered how anyone managed to keep their OS X machines up to date with only a dial up connection. It must take forever to bring your machine up to date.
Issues with the later versions of iTunes/QT were really only evident on the Windows side of the market, there has not been a stream of complaints here about the Mac version.
On with the problem. Open Utilities folder and launch Disk Utilities. Run Repair Disk Permissions on your boot volume and see if that makes any difference.
QuickTime is required for iTunes work work properly and was probably NOT part of the software update download. You can download QuickTIme, without iTunes, from the Quicktime page of Apple.com.
Just as a matter of interest, why did you trash QT in the first place?
You meet the system requirements quite easily. The requirements do not say that a Super is required, it just says that a Combo drive OR SuperDrive is required to burn CD's. You either have a Combo drive that burns CD's or you have a Superdrive that burns CD's, it all depends on which Mac you have.
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Hello - We'll get to my fault in a moment, but buying a new Ipod shuffle required that I upgrade my old 6.?? Itunes to the latest version. I downloaded it through Software Update, not thinking that I should have read anything re system requirements. The download was stopped once due to a dial-up failure, but picked up again, and seemed to finish well, 'optimizing volume' etc...I lost some 6mb from the HD free count, and the Itunes icon is now blue, indicating that it's 'there' in some form at least. But now I can't even open the Itunes program; each attempt immediately results in a flag saying 'Itunes has unexpectedly quit', and offers to send a bug report to the authorities...This is consistent. Now, reading some background on the download, I see that I don't meet some of the system requirements, eg: 1] Quicktime is required; I trashed that long ago, but willing to get it again if it'll help. 2] OS at least 10.3.9; got that. 3] 500 mhz required; 800 here, should be OK. 4] Combo/Super drive for burning cd's; got a combo drive; why is that super required? Reading some archived forum posts from all sources it appears these later Itunes apps are prone to issues; sad, but probably unavoidable. If permanently ousted from the truly modern world of the latest Itunes/Ipod, fine. Prefer not to, but I can return the Ipod, but how would I at least get back my ability to open the program?
iBook G3, 800 mhz, 640 ram, 30 gig hd, 21.34 free, Panther 10.3.9 OS

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