How to kill iTunes timeout when a CD is bad??!?!

Ok, I have a really frustrating problem.
Was listening to a CD in iTunes when all of a sudden playback stops, the CD is scratched and the CD Drive is trying to search the CD.
Here's the problem, it NEVER successfully recovers from the CD scratch, which is fine, I don't expect iTunes to be able to play a damaged disc.
What is not fine is that it takes literally TEN MINUTES before I can do anything, eject the CD, quit iTunes, force quit iTunes, eject the cd with the finder, or just in general have iTunes respond to anything, AT ALL.
Why the **** would they program it like this? I literally waited TEN MINUTES for iTunes to decide to give me any control back, and I could eject the cd.
This is a HUGE frustration for me, is there somewhere I can lower the amount of time iTunes takes to decide a cd is bad, like for example 15 seconds instead of 600 seconds?

Have you tried to 'option' +  + 'esc' to Force Quit and relaunch the Finder?
MJ

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