ITunes Library.itl becomes corrupt very often

I very often run into the same trouble.
After working on my iTunes Mediathek (adding covers etc.) I close iTunes and it is not possible to open it again.
It comes up with the error "iTunes Library.itl cannot be opened".
After rebuilding the iTunes Library.itl from the iTunes Library.xml it works for a while and then the problem appears again.
Sometimes iTunes creates a lot of "Temp File xx.tmp" files. In this case it is possible to rename the latest temp-file into iTunes Library.itl and iTunes works again.
This problem costs me hours of work.
It did not happen with iTunes 10.7; just since I updated to iTunes 11.
Does anybody have an idea?
I use iTunes 11.0.1 on OSX 10.8.2 on MBP 15" late 2008.
Thanks in advance

The problem is solved.
iTunes will start to build "Temp File xx.tmp"-files if there would be a problem to write to the harddrive.
After checking and repairing my disk I renamed the latest of the "Temp File xx.tmp" into iTunes Library.itl & iTunes Library.xml (corresponding to the file size)!
And what should I say? iTunes is running stable, no more "Temp File xx.tmp"-files and no problems in starting iTunes again and again.
I hope this will help if some of you have the same problems!
Greets
Meikel

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