Extremely slow import of MP3s into iTunes

Hi, I downloaded a bunch of free songs from Amazon and they all downloaded successfully. However, iTunes crashed while the Amazon downloader was sending iTunes the information, and now the Amazon downloader thinks its job is done. I've been trying to get iTunes to recognize the new songs, but it's either painfully, crawling slow or it freezes entirely. It takes 10-15 minutes for one song double-clicked from the Windows Explorer menu to make it to iTunes. Once it's there, it plays fine and can be added/moved to playlists and all of that. If I use the iTunes menu to import a folder, it freezes. If I try more than two songs at a time, it freezes.
A few months ago I had downloaded a bunch of free Amazon songs and iTunes didn't crash, but it took four days of the computer never being allowed to power down/sleep for iTunes to process all the songs and have them available for play. I think it was maybe 15-20 songs.
What's up with this? It's driving me crazy. I'd use something other than iTunes if my iPod didn't require it.
I'm on Vista (which won't surprise me if that's the problem) on a reasonably fast machine. I've rebooted and gone straight to iTunes without starting other programs, so it's not like I have a gazillion things running in the background. Nothing makes it go faster.
I've read through the Apple support files and run a diagnostic. I do have an NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE, but the support files talk about problems with a different NVIDIA. I have the latest version of iTunes (8.2.1.6).
Advice appreciated, thanks.

Don't use the Amazon downloader. Just get the songs from Amazon using your browser, download them to your machine, and then add them to the iTunes library the normal way, i.e. either by using File > Add File/Folder to lIBrary, or by dragging the icons into the open iTunes window.

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