Itunes 11.2, the podcasts section crippled.

I have downloaded and installed Itunes 11.2 and I am afraid this was a terrible mistake.
All the changes made to the podcasts section, although promising are so buggy, that the experience has become unbearable.
The refresh button, simply does not work when you click it, it may after a few minutes, not seconds, minutes! 
When you change your preferences in order to keep or delete episodes, auto delete played episodes or limit the amount, as soon as you quit the app, they go back to defaults.... useless.
The amount of memory that the app takes over all in the system goes up to 2 0r 3 gigs at times!
The app stops responding from time to time, it does not crash, but stays there unusable.
Podcast download speeds are terrible, pausing them and restarting sometimes does the trick, but the user has to pause and resume each podcast manually until the app decides to understand that one does have a decent internet connection, and then, only then would it start downloading at proper speeds
This update is just TERRIBLE!!!
Would you guys at apple, say something about this? Can we go back to the prior version of itunes? This is unacceptable.

I think i might have stumbled upon a solution.
After thinking for a while about preferences not sticking after quiting i just went to see if somtething was up with that.
Go to you user folder > Library > Preferences and look for the com.apple.itunes.plist
Have you got a lot of .com.apple.itunes.plist that add an extra " . " and 3 or 4 random letters?
I had about 60 of them, got the lot, deleted every single .plist file that had the word itunes in it, and restarted.
Bingo, my itunes got a lot quieter, my podcasts are downloading at normal speeds and things seems to be back to as what they should be.
I am crossing my fingers and hope that this is a solution for the podcasts going crazy on me.
Now as far as the memory management, that's a different story, itunes is hogging  2.86 gbs at the time of my writing this,,,,,,

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