HELP!  relentless stuttering of music files since upgrade to itunes 7.6

...and upgrade to 7.6.1 did nothing to alleviate the issue.
makes no difference if the file was purchased from ITMS or ripped from my own CD collection.
it's been over 2 weeks of beating the drum and NOTHING in response.

This is a widespread issue, search the boards for "stutter" .... there must several hundred people posting on these forums with the same issue.
I have my 300GB + iTunes library on an external WD My Book Pro (a 2TB version set up as a 1TB RAID mirror) connected via FW800. I solved my stuttering playback problem by transferring my library to another external FW800 drive with two Seagate 200GB drives configured as a RAID stripe.
It would be interesting to get some stats on how many people have their iTunes library on external or network drives and what vendors the drives are manufactured by.
Post your iTunes config details here, even if you dont have the problem.

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