Housing my iTunes library on my Windows 2008 R2 Server at home...

Greetings everyone!
I am a complete iOS junkie; needless to say I own multiple devices.  And, over time my iTunes library has grown to over 50GB in size.  Keeping this in mind, with how often I also change out computers, I decided to host my entire iTunes library on my server.  The reason being mainly that the server is on RAID and backs everything up every single night, so if anything were to corrupt I could easily restore.
Now, I have iTunes 10.5 running on a new Core i7 notebook, which is permanently docked on the media shelf - and it's ONLY function is to run iTunes, auto-download all new purchases and updates, and to enable wireless sync to all of my devices in the house.  I have a permanently mapped drive going to the server location where the iTunes library is stored...
Well, everything runs fine, however I am a bit surprised that with a very hefty 1GB Cisco network, that when iTunes gets to the sections "determining apps to sync" and then "determining tracks to sync", that these parts of syncing are incredibly slow.... but they do finish correctly.
Are there any thoughts out there on possible speeding up this process, besides having iTunes copy the whole library locally?  I suppose if I needed to, I could have the library kept locally, and then a local backup job send a backup to the server nightly - but it was easier this way.....  Any thoughts on this are appreciated
Thanks much!

I have CHANGED MY TUNE (LOL) - iTunes is not a happy camper when the installed default iTunes media location is always on mapped server drive.  I have simply changed the following:
I allowed iTunes to make local copies of everything to the host machine (locally) and I have changed the default location of iTunes Media to the local drive.  No more going over the network.....
I have set an automated backup in Windows every night to run at 1AM which will push it's backup set to the server...  this way the library is always backed up.  This has cut down by 800% the amount of time that syncing was taking...
OH WELL guys - I suppose I just typed my question too quickly without thinking it through.  Thanks - have a great rest-of-the-weekend,
Mike

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