ITunes 7.0.1.8 / xp --- love/hate relationship with seamless playback

I always hated the artificial gaps between tracks, so I was really excited when I heard about seamless playback. That's the main reason I upgraded iTunes. The problem is that seamless playback seems to really hog system resources on my pc. Since it is typically a second or so between tracks it wasn't a huge deal to me. Other than the resource issue it worked fine. Well, today I'm listening to Odelay by Beck. The last track on the album is Ramshackle and the main part of the song runs about four minutes or so... followed by about two minutes of silence... and then a bunch of noise which concludes the track and the album. The total track length is 7:29. During the silent two minutes the CPU usage on my pc suddenly jumped to 100% and basically froze my pc for two minutes. This is unacceptable. Has anything been done in iTunes 7.0.2 to rectify this? I'm a little hesitant to upgrade again, so if this is still an issue I'll probably hold off.
Thanks.

Hey mmartin123,
How is this issue affected if Crossfade Playback is turned on
Here is more information on Gapless playback
Hope this helps,
Generik
PowerMac G4/Dell Precision WS 370, XP Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

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