Fix for rental movies freezing or locking up iTunes

Hi, I had this problem where rented movies would freeze or lock up my iTunes and I'd have to kill it with Task Manager. I rented 2 movies and had the problem with both. I had apple let me re-download the 2 movies after my rental period finished so that I could trouble shoot the problem more.
Apple care pointed me to this url: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1421?viewlocale=en_US
So I created a new xp username and re-downloaded one of the movies in that iTunes. WOrks no problem!!
SO in the original xp username that's broken I completey removed these 2 folders: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes and
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes and now the original login works too!!
Hope this will be helpful to people out there.

I found this in an older post, although I didn't hear anything from support.
+I have heard from tech support from Apple. This is a defect in iTunes. There is nothing you (we) can do to fix it. We will have to wait for iTunes to release a fix. In the meantime, to get a refund, when you get your invoice from Apple for the rental, simply click on the "report a problem" link in the email and follow all instructions. Your money will be refunded. FYI this problem is occurring on Mac as well as Windows.+
*If this is true I really hope this issue is fixed before the release of iTunes 7.7!*

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