Autofill performance in iTunes 7?

I just upgraded to iTunes 7, and am trying to autofill my 512k shuffle - and it is slowwwwwww! It was never "fast" with iTunes 6, but on 7 this is literally going to take overnight to autofill. Any thoughts on how to fix it, or should I go back v6?
thanks,
bt

It's a mix of mp3, wma, and aac - probably 90% mp3.
I'm doing an autofill right now, and after 3 hours it's about 25% complete, so we're talking 12 hours or so to complete. It was about an hour in iTunes 6 - not quick, but manageable. It is chewing up a decent amount of CPU, too - about 25% of a 1.3G Celeron. The USB transfer time should be a big deal (500MB at USB-II speeds is seconds, not hours), so I'm assuming it's just doing some painfully slow transcoding.
thanks,
bt

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