Extended Pause in Music When Switching Songs (iTunes 8.1)

I'm currently on my work PC and am trying to play music from my iPod via iTunes 8.1. Most of the time I'll be listening to music fine, tracks play flawlessly, no problems. Then randomly, when a song finishes up and is switching to the next song, iTunes locks up for about 10-15 seconds. Music stops playing, my taskbar is frozen and the only way to switch applications is to use Alt+Tab.
I'm running the Last.fm scrobbler along side of iTunes, so I wonder if there may be a problem with that. I'll try disabling Last.fm and play some music and see what happens. A status update on this will be posted in about an hour or so. If it is Last.fm, any ideas what caused iTunes 8.1 to break the connection with Last.fm? Fixable?
Thanks for any help that is provided
*Edit: Okay, so just after posting this I exited the Last.fm scrobbler application and just started clicking the Next button in iTunes. After about 15 songs, iTunes locked up again. I'd also like to note that I have Shuffle and Repeat Playlist enabled. I am also playing my entire iPod library, not a specific playlist.
If more details are needed, let me know.
-Andrew
Message was edited by: O3CAndrew

Hi..
I´m having the same problem with itunes 8.1. I don't have any add ons, scripts, just plain Itunes, with music (mp3) and I´m on a Imac. Tried several things, like re-building my library, checking my mp3, etc...
The only solution I found was downgrade to 8.0.2 again, now everythig works great, no lags, no frozen itunes.
At my house I also have windows pc, with itunes 8.1 the pc's work OK!!! Same library, etc... I´m having problems with the MAC!!!

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