Beginning of song play causes iTunes to max out CPU and rewrite library

I'm experiencing a strange problem with iTunes for Windows. Whenever a song plays, about 5 seconds after it starts, the CPU maxes out for 20-30 seconds. This occurs either when the next song plays in a playlist, when I manually start a song, or if I've paused a song in the middle and start playing it again. I used a process monitoring program, and it's not the iTunes process that maxes out the CPU when this happens, but the system process, and when it happens it always shows that it's writing to three files, sequentially in this order (with the first two being written to twice):
1) [iTunes Music Folder]/iTunes Music Library.xml
2) [iTunes Music Folder]/Temp File
3) [iTunes Music Folder]/iT.tmp
4) [iTunes Music Folder]/iTunes Music Library.xml
5) [iTunes Music Folder]/Temp File
The "Temp File" has no extension. This is a really annoying problem; it's been happening for about two days, but I can't think of any associated system change. I'm running Windows XP SP 2 with iTunes 7.0.2.16. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

I do have a very large library--about 6000 songs. However, it's been that large for a long time, with no problems. It seems like it usually just updates the library when it closes. If it's been doing it on every song play before, it hasn't been taking 30 seconds, but something so small that it doesn't show up on my process monitor, which I'm constantly paying attention to.
It doesn't seem like this is a hardware problem, but some setting or something that got changed to make it rewrite the entire library every time I edit it.
I did check the Windows Event Viewer and couldn't find anything helpful.
A couple other things that I've changed recently that could have an effect:
1) Yesterday I set a bunch of songs to not come up on iTunes shuffle; before I hadn't used this setting.
2) I attempted to make iTunes treat some mp3s as podcasts so that it would remember their play position. In the process of doing this, it decided that it wanted to re-download all of the back episodes of a particular podcast I subscribe to. I then figured out that you can set particular songs so it remembers their playback position, and instead just added those mp3s normally and set that option.
I unset the "don't use this song when shuffling" option for all songs, and also deleted my subscription to that podcast, to see if those things would have any effect, but they haven't. It seems like the podcast thing has something to do with this, though, because I think the problem started around the time that I tried that. Any thoughts?

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