Gapless Computing Freezes my system

I downloaded iTunes 7 just fine and it installed without a hitch. It even started up properly. After that, though...
I booted it up to the usual hullabaloo and it promptly started churning its way through calculating the gapless play feature. Since I have over 11,000 files in my system I walk away for a bit. When I came back later, it had frozen at song 112 and any attempt to do anything made my computer lock up. I tried zapping that file and it then started to freeze at song 111. I reinstated the file, re-installed iT7, uninstalled and reinstalled... **** near every combination you can imagine, but it all came to the same freezing point.
I am currently trying to re-install 6.0.5, but now I have to recreate my library, podcasts, etc etc...
Any suggestions?

If I reinstall 6 will I lose my ratings/playlists/playcounts etc?
Yes, BUT you can recover them. There should be a file called ITunes Library.itl Search for that and somewhere within the folder that file resides there ought to be a folder of old library files, including the one that was abandoned when you upgraded (HA!) to iT7. Put that in the previous folder, rename it to take the place of the old file and it should all come back, right as rain.

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