Slow iTunes Cover Flow

I have a Macbook 2 Ghz processor with a 1gig of ram.
I have just over 5,000 songs and they are all on my hard drive, when i use the cover flow view in iTunes it seems to be very slugish sometimes. When I first got the Macbook cover flow worked beautiful, but now when I first open iTunes it works great but after using it for a bit and it seems to be slow.
When I flip through albums it gets slow and stops, the color wheel comes up and then it catches up to its self and goes to that album. I cleared all album art and redownloaded all album art thinking that would help, but it didn't do much for me. Any one else have this problem or have a fix that can make Cover Flow work smooth like it use to?

"I have about 12GB of music in iTunes (I do a lot of clearing of old unwanted tracks) and coverflow is smooth (minus the loading of some album art when flying through it)"
Darksol360
I also had missing artwork covers for some CD's that won't update from iTunes store. To find and complete your missing covers do a google search for the artist and album, then from Amazon.com drag the large album artwork from the link to, right click on coverflow cover that is missing artwork and add the artwork. Two examples below!
Robin Trower
The Ultimate Yes 35th
It takes time to add the missing artwork this way, but it's well worth it to have covers for all your albums.
Dennis
17" iMac Intel Core Duo - 2GB Ram -   Mac OS X (10.4.10)   - Maxtor 300GB FireWire - Creative Inspire 2.1 - 2G Nano

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