Beginning of track skips

I used to always have all my playlist windows displayed in the list view. But one day I got greedy and wanted that cool looking cover flow look. so I switched over and had iTunes "auto d/l missing artwork" shortly there-after my problem started occurring. Now when iTunes is transitioning between the song being played (s1) and the next song (s2), the next song (s2) skips and jumps at the beginning for a couple seconds. It happens on almost every song now, "except" the first song I click to start listening. Its unbearably frustrating, I have since switched back to the list view for my playlists, stopped the auto d/l for the album artwork and removed all the artwork that iTunes had acquired. I even went as far as uninstalling iTunes and reinstalling it. (to no avail). I'm running 7.6.0.29, and constantly check for upgrades hoping that might correct this issue. but nothing is coming fast enough.
has anyone encountered a problem like this before? any ideas how to remedy this annoyance.

OK, if it's not one of the things I suggested, I don't think I can be much help. I don't see why using coverflow for a period should affect performance when you switch back to the norma view.
If you have cross fade on, I would try truning it off completely. The only other thing I can say is that there is a huge amount of opening and closing files going on around track change which can put an extra load on your system if resources are limited.
The only other thing I can think of to try is recreating your library. If you want to give that a go drag iTunes library.itl and iTunes Music Library.xml to the desk top, then use the following article to recreate your library:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93313
If that doesn't make a difference, and I have little hope that it will, you can simply replace the new iTunes Library.itl with the old one you dragged to the desktop and you will be back as you were. Always have iTunes closed when you do anything to the library files.
Another remote possibility is deleting the preference files. This causes new ones to be created, but all your settings go back to default.
You may need to make hidden files visible
My Documents>Tools>Folder Options>View
Check Show hidden files and folders
-- Quit iTunes
-- Delete C:\Documents and Settings\<your username>\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunes.pref and/or iTunesPrefs.xml
-- Delete C:\Documents and Settings\<your username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer Inc\iTunes.pref and/or iTunesPrefs.xml
For Vista the files are in:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Apple Computer\iTunes
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes
I have no real reason for these last two suggestions, except that the fact that the problem came on after using cover flow is odd and I wonder if something went wrong with the library/preferences.
You didn't make any other changes to your system around the time that you were using coverflow did you? Coverflow could be a red herring.

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