Extreme lag during song deletion

I am getting some extreme lag, (a few minutes for each song) when I delete music in iTunes.
I've read up on it a bit, and I'm thinking it's because of my library size - which is about 15,000 songs after adding all of my older music - now totals about 82GB. I've restarted iTunes, rebooted, and checked most everything. I don't know what else to do, iTunes is becoming almost unusable; even other small operations are slower than ever.
I just wanna know if there's anything I could try, or if it's just a fault on iTunes's part.
S'never happened to me before.
Thanks in advance.

A couple of thoughts, you quite a large library which is always going to be a bit slower than a small one. Is it on an external drive or network that might be slowing things down. This is particularly and issue if the library database files themselves are on the external resource.
Do you have a lot of smart playlists with live updating, that can be a significant overhead.
The other thing I wonder about is virus checking, it might be worth briefly disabling virus checking to see if that makes a difference. If it does try excluding iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Music Library.xml from virus checking They are in your iTunes folder in Music.

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