Frequent beachballs for maybe a year now?

After an iTunes upgrade a long time ago, maybe a year ago, I have been having beachballs everytime I try to do ANYTHING in iTunes - play a song, scroll, select another song, you name it. I get it within a second or two of my asking it to do anything. Things will work fine after that but why does it happen EVERY TIME when I ask it to do anything?
I am using iTunes 9.2.1 now and have always kept up to date on OSX updates for 10.4 (have 10.4.11) I have a 17" Powerbook 1.67 ghz DL, 1.5 gb ram. It now has a 320 gb hd with about 1/2 to 3/4 of that free varying.The hd was upgraded this past Christmas but the problem was apparent way before that.
I have 3733 items in the music section (28.72 gb), 1014 in the movie section (18.54 gb), no tv shows, 28 podcasts.My iTunes folder is 6.27 gb. Radio streams without any problem.(I never copy things to the iTunes folder when adding to the library...) I have had about this much music and movies, etc since BEFORE the problem became apparent. (Maybe some threshold was reached?)
I thought it might be fixed with each upgrade but it remains. Do other people have this problem? I can't imagine anyone wanting to use iTunes if this was a common problem and it has not having been addressed (unless Apple doesn't care about Tiger users anymore...)
I'll go fix my permissions again but that has been done in the past to no result.
Thanks for any help.
John L

HI John,
If you haven't done so, try maintenance.
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintscripts.html
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