It's not your fault - back in the late 90s when I came to light side I hated iTunes too. It's clearly stockholm syndrome - I deal with it because I've grown used to the way it does things. It isn't bad, but it does take getting used to.

Quicktime, well, I can't see why you'd hate it (except for maybe that it probably sucks on windows) - it's actually amazing on the mac. Lightweight, fast, everything a user needs and nothing else.

Not to be pedantic, but iTunes wasn't released until 2001.

Not your fault. Apple software in Windows is awful. iTunes is slow and ugly, for example. But when you use that apps in a Mac they're just great.

Don't ask me why this happens. It may be Apple's engineers fault or Windows' architecture fault.

I use iTunes on both Windows and Mac for dealing with iPads, podcasts and grabbing stuff off of iTunes U and it sucks just as much on both platforms. It might be a great music player, but when they decided to make it a kitchen sink app for handling all those non music listening tasks just mentioned, they ended up creating a usability nightmare.