I signed up just to reply and thank you for this fix. Well after three hours or better looking around Apple's help area I landed here and this fricken fixed the issue. I too was using a nlite slipstreamed SP3 and apparently this is how I ended up hosed. Unlike most however, I used this broken image to load up 20 laptops at work and went to run iTunes and it was broke on all of them!!!! I was crying to say the least. So now this fixes it and I'm back in business. It's my own **** fault that I didn't run iTunes before I cloned the drive or I would have noticed it being dead...Thanks for your help!