APPLE: PLEASE NOTICE gapless playback crashes iTunes--how to turn it off?

Question

Most of the time when my iTunes starts to "determine gapless playback", it crashes. I have to re-start iTunes and run my sync (10 minutes) over again. VERY FRUSTRATING.
I have tried something I saw on another bulletin board, which was an attempt to turn off Gapless Playback:
--go into iTunes;
--select ALL songs;
--RIGHT click;
--select Get Info;
--it will now ask "Are you sure you want to edit information for all items"...click YES;
--in the lower right-hand corner of "Multiple Item Information", check the box that says NO to gapless playback;
--hit OKAY.
iTunes then goes through and removes gapless playback. PROBLEM with this solution: it doesn't stay. Every time you do anything on iTunes, it reverts to gapless playback.
Has anyone else found a work-around or a way to permanently turn off gapless playback? Or is this an Apple problem that they need to solve in the next iTunes release?
R
  Windows XP  

Answer 1

As when stopping the play of a song with the music app.
There is a pause button and a fast forward button to the next song above the volume level indicator at the bottom. Select the pause button which will turn to a play button. When wanting to start playing again, press the play button.