Trying to install iTunes onto my Windows XP system

Hi, I'm new and I'm not all that much of a techy, so I need some help.

I'm trying to install iTunes onto my Windows XP system but it freezes up during installation and a box pops up that says Gathering Information... Status: Performing Installation Checks. It stays like this for hours and has no further progress.

I'm not sure if I'm on the right track or not, but from reading another thread someone advised to go to right click My Computer and click Manage and view the Event Viewer.

Upon doing so, I see 2 Errors. One Application Error- Source: VBRunTime Description: The VB Application identified by the event source logged this Application MSICUU: Thread ID: 1932, Logged

And one System Error- Source: Service Control Manager Description: The SessionLauncher service failed to start due to the following error: the system cannot find the path specified.

Please help! I've spent several hours Googling and I can't seem to come up with anything that's worked so far. I've updated drivers among other things.. :cry

 

I have service pack 3. I'm not sure if the account I was logged into was the administrators account or not. Let me try it again.

 

Ok, YES I'm logged in as an administrator. I've tried almost everything on the iTunes troubleshooting page. Earlier I got it to install about halfway through but it froze. I just tried again and now I can't even get that far again. It's back to the previous box: Gathering Information.. etc.

I'm so close to hiring someone this is making me so angry!

 

Maybe a corrupt installer..?

Try to unregister MSIEXEC in the command prompt and then re register.

msiexec.exe /unregister > Enter
msiexec.exe /regserver > Enter