Crossfade broken in 6.0.4, 1.3ghz iBook?

I use my iBook at my studio, mostly to play music and for some light browsing/email. It's been great, except now that I've upgraded to 6.0.4, crossfading doesn't work. What happens is that the song abruptly ends before the song's natural ending -- there is a little pause, and then the next song starts. This is pretty disconcerting. I've since turned off crossfade off but that has revealed another issue. It still appears that the songs are being clipped about 2 seconds from the end, plus, when the next song starts, I hear about a quarter second, then a half second pause, and then it starts again. The only other app running is Safari (well, also Terminal and Top), my system is running at 60-75% idle (plenty of headroom on the processor, I have loads of free memory too). However, when a song transition occurs, the processor use goes up pretty high to the point only 30% is idle, then to 70% idle while the gap in song starting occurs, then 30% idle when the song starts up a second time before returning to 70% idle.
Anyway, is anyone else having a similar experience on similar hardware? I'm thinking I'll go back to 6.0.3 if others are also having problems. If not, maybe I have an issue peculiar to this machine.

Problem solved. What was happening is that I downloaded some music from emusic -- it doesn't come w/ album art. I also had the lyrics widget set to download album art if there isn't any. So the skipping was being caused in songs when the album art was being downloaded and saved. So it wasn't an itunes issue at all, just an issue of pegging the processor and disk r/w ability.

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