External iTunes hard drives hang up...

     I've been working this problem for months, and I'm stumped.  Hoping one of you might be able to help.  (Lots of detail here)
     I use a mid-2011 27" iMac
     8GB DDR3 RAM
     OS 10.8.3
     iTunes 11.0.2
     I use twin Lacie d2 Quadra 3TB hard drives.  One of these stores my iTunes library containing about 2.5GB of music, movies and other media to which iTunes is directed.  The second Lacie is a clone of the first, created with a regularly-scheduled backup action done by SuperDuper!.  The backup is scheduled during the early morning hours while we sleep, 3X a week.  The iMac's on-board hard drive is half-full.
     I originally used these external hard drives daisy-chained via FW800, then attempted to use them each connected to the USB ports individually, and finally tried using them with one connected to FW800, and the other connected to Thunderbolt with the FW-Thunderbolt adapter.  The problem persists.
     Here's the problem.  When I leave the system on in order to do Home Sharing to my two AppleTVS in the house, iTunes crashes (after inconsistent time periods).  I have to force quit iTunes (iTunes not responding), and the hard drives will not eject.  I am forced to turn them off before the Mac will logout, restart, … anything.  As soon as I turn off the power to both hard drives, the Mac loosens up and I can get moving again.  Soooo... I'm always having to shut down HDs, logout or restart (because iTunes ends up locked out), then turn the drives back on and start iTunes so I can watch a movie on the AppleTV.
I have told my Mac not to sleep.  (I do this so the family can access media while I'm at work).  I do sleep the display when I depart.
I have gone to Energy Saver and deselected "Put Hard Drives to Sleep" (it keeps resetting to being checked whenever I restart of logout/login)
I have shut down one of the hard drives and "used" the iTunes library on the other alone, just to see if one of them was corrupted in some way.  The issue occurs no matter which HD I designate and use.
I have run Disk Warrior on my startup drive and each of the externals.  No problems.
I have used Disk Utility on all to verify/repair.  No issues.
I thought the problem was one of the hard drives, but it happens to both.
I thought the problem might be a cable or FW bus, but it happens with whatever connectivity choice.
I thought it was iTunes, but it works fine for a couple hours prior to problems.  I can watch a movie, but once it's complete and I navigate the AppleTV to another media product, I have to restart the whole process at the iMac again to watch another.
     At this point, I have no idea where to even look for a problem to fix.  I suppose there might be corrupted file in the library, but going through 2.5GB of media looking for one would be a nightmare.  I considered attempting to re-write the iTunes library database, but I'm a little concerned I'll lose a lot of the organizational work I've done in the library (TV show seasons, movie artwork, etc.)
     I'd appreciate anything you might be able to suggest.  Thanks, gang.
     Bill

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