Music folder causing crash

Everytime I go to work with the music folder, within the itunes folder, it causes the spinning colorwheel to come up and I need to force quit to get out of the program. When this happens a noise starts within the computer as well, sort of like a squeaky rocking chair. I am using itunes 7.0.2. Any help would be great!

Sorry, sent that before I intended...
...I've since removed the folder to a separate external drive to keep it out the way until I've found/solved the problem, and my Macbook now runs with no problems.
Just wondering what options I have? In terms of what the problem actually was, things would hang when the iTunes screensaver kicked in, it would hang when iTunes was playing songs, anything to do with moving or transferring music within the iTunes folder would regularly cause hangs (though there hasn't been one particular file that causes all of this, it seems to happen whatever song is playing), and it was even hanging when iTunes wasn't open, or the screensaver wasn't on...in other words it still hung randomly when I wasn't even doing much (strangely though it hung quite consistently when I was on Vimeo checking out videos?? Which it doesn't do now the folder's been shifted off the drive...).
Any help would be much appreciated. Sorry for the long rant, I figured more info would be better than too little!

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