Genius stuck while gathering info about my library

I decided to use Genius for the first time. I turned it on. It started to gather information about my library. I went to bed.
Next morning, the bar had reached about twenty percent across. Itunes was unusable as it had slowed right down to glacial. I left it on for another 24 hours. After 24 hours, it had moved no further, and itunes was still glacial.
I turned everything off. Restarted. I then had to turn on Genius again, and click on the contract, as if I had never done before. The bar immediately moves up to twenty percent again, but there it sticks, nothing happens for a day, and itunes is glacial/useless.
I have looked in this forum, and deleted the itunes library genius file, as well as all apple.com cookies, as some people said that worked for them. But it didn't work for me.
I am using latest versions of itunes 10 and snow leopard. 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo imac, 1GB Memory, 20 GB left on the HD.
I'd be grateful for any help and advice.

I've been using Genius for a long time, but mine just started doing this as well.
It gathers info up to around 40%, then just bogs down. Then after about 10 more minutes, iTunes will completely freeze and give me the spinning beachball / marble of doom.
I had to force quit and this ended up locking the iTunes library file, so I repaired permissions, restarted, deleted the genius database, and watched it gather info and freeze again.
I'm on 10.6.6 and whatever the latest version of iTunes is, 2.4GHz MBP, 4 GB ram.

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