Itunes uses 100% of CPU

Hi, I've got Itunes 10.0.2 on a MacBook witch Mac OS X 10.7.5
My problem is that Itunes process after few minutes starts to use the 100% of the CPU, and the program doesn't exit if I try to; the only solution is to force the closing of the program.
What can I do?

Sorry Itunes 11.0.2

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