Album Artwork / Cloud

Hi,
When I open Itunes or after I have made changes to the library i.e. Download purchases / matched songs, there is a background process that brings everything to a halt. This process lasts around 4/5 minutes. During this time I get the spinning beach ball & cannot do anything until the process completes. Music that is playing stops at end of track & next one does not play until process has completed.
I have narrowed the problem down and I believe that the problem is due to Album Artwork/Cloud in the Itunes folder. I have examined Activity Monitor and Open files and ports. On the Log, the entries for Album Artwork/Cloud folder keeps changing is if new entries are being added. Reference to this dissappears once the process has completed.
This folder is 2.19GB and does not seem to increase. I created a second intunes librarary with match turned on - this had the same size of folder.
Signing out of match and back in is not an option as my library has more than 25k tracks, many with cloud status as "Removed". When library is rematched, the removed status is ignored & I get Exceeded limit for all tracks.
Any Ideas on how to fix this. Are there any plists that I should be looking at?
Jim

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