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Having the help window minimized to the dock allows the above commands in multiclutch to work for me in itunes. Won't work with the equalizer open though; it has to be help.
 
This works for me

Having the help window minimized to the dock allows the above commands in multiclutch to work for me in itunes. Won't work with the equalizer open though; it has to be help.

iTunes worked for about a month without doing this somehow. Now I have to do this.
 
I figured it out!

Put itunes helper in startup items, this can be found in the itunes package, did this and it worked again without opening help.
 
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