iWant my iPod and iTunes to just iWork

I am starting to go crazy.

I love my iPod (though were I rich, I would have a new one without scratches on the screen), and I love my iTunes. The problem is that my iTunes stopped working, leaving me with an iPod that I can't update. At first I thought it was not the end of the world; I have some retrieval software which takes music from the iPod and imports it into iTunes. I used it when my computer crashed a year or so ago, and thus prevented the great tragedy of losing ALL of my songs which I have in digital copies only.

This time, my computer didn't crash. I just went to open iTunes, and it didn't open. I unistalled it, and then I tried to redownload it, hoping that was the problem. It didn't work. It also didn't work on my external harddrive. I haven't yet given up hope though-- I can still try to do it on the external harddrive through Deanna's clunker of a laptop, but who knows when that will happen. Let's face it-- it takes forever to boot up, and I am lazy and would rather spend hours trying to find a way to work around something that sounds like such an unattractive option. That is just my personality; I like to work hard to prevent having to do work of a lesser scale.

We'll see what happens, but in the meantime, my new music is limited to my car stereo, and if I ever use my iPod, it continues to be the same old selection without hope of ever updating.