Itunes consumes 100% of CPU 15 seconds after startup

I was using iTunes 8, and experienced the following very annoying problem : 15 seconds after startup, the itunes application starts to consume 100% of CPU, and the application is not responding anymore. If I started to play a file within those 15 seconds, the file continues to play normally, but I cannot stop it anymore, and I cannot work on my PC (as 100% of CPU is taken by iTunes).
I tried to upgrade to iTunes 9.2, but the problem persists.
Any idea what can be the cause of this problem ? It prevents me to use iTunes on my PC.
Config of the PC :
- Windows XP
- 1 Gbyte RAM
- AMD 1.14 GHz

Sorry Itunes 11.0.2

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