Download iTunes 10.5.2 here:
32 bit: http://www.filehippo.com/download_itunes_32/11232/
64 bit: http://www.filehippo.com/download_itunes_64/11233/

Click on “Start” or the Windows Orb (depending on which version of Windows you are using) and click Run. If you don’t see “Run”, hold the Window key on your keyboard and press ‘r’. Enter the following text into the run dialog:
%APPDATA%\Apple Computer

Highlight all of the folders in the window that opens (Ctrl + a) and copy them (Ctrl + c), create a new folder on your desktop and call it ‘Apple Computer’. This is just a backup in case something goes wrong with the reinstall.

Once again, go to Start > Run (Window key + r) and type: appwiz.cpl

Look for iTunes in the list, and uninstall it. Once the uninstall is complete, double-click the iTunes installer you downloaded from File Hippo and follow the prompts. Once the installation completes, open iTunes and login to your Apple account when prompted, ensure that Home Sharing is turned on by clicking on Advanced in the menu (it should say “Turn off Home Sharing (YOUR ACCOUNT)” if Home Sharing is turned on).

That’s it.

• they utilize browser plugins like Flash
• are enormously cumbersome to use with too many configuration options,
• and once again, only store strings.
• no unit tests
• buggy
• did I mention they are cumbersome to use and only hold strings????

So, I have set out to resolve these grievances and have come quite close with jsper. JSPER is a wrapper class around local storage that provides a more friendly api to localStorage using simple get and set methods:

jsper.set('foo', {bar:'baz',boz:{bez:'biz'}});
//jsper.get returns the type of object you gave it; in this case, an object
var my_object = jsper.get('foo');

jsper.set('arr', ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']);
// returns an array
var my_array = jsper.get('arr');

In addition to automatic serialization/deserialization, there are a number of other useful methods, most of which (non-getters) are chainable, overloaded and accept callbacks. Jstore allows you to inspect the current storage engine, force a different storage engine (including session-lifetime storage).

Iterating over a collection

// set an array in storage
jsper.set('an_array', ['This', 'is', 'pretty', 'cool']);
var message = "";
// perform iteration, data is the stored value and index is numerical index
jsper.each('an_array', function(data, index){
   message += " "+data;
});
console.log(message);//outputs: "This is pretty cool"

Lots more information @github: http://github.com/rmcvey/jsper
Also, I made it into a jquery plugin if you are into that sort of thing: