How can I downgrade to an earlier version of iTunes w/out losing my music?

My computer, a 2004-ish Dell (OC'd GeForce FX550 graphics card, Pentium 4 2.00GHz, 1.99GHz 512 MB RAM, 50.9/74.4 GB of HD filled) is apparently too slow to run the newer versions of iTunes (currently on 7.4.3.1) I've lived with this for a while, but having to wait two to five minutes to do anything else after moving songs to a playlist on my ipod from my iPod or to my iPod from iTunes is unacceptable. As it stands I can't downgrade without uninstalling iTunes, but I don't want to lose all of the music that I've bought and added from my own fairly large collection. Am I okay to uninstall and downgrade? Is there some kind of workaround? Or am I condemned to suffer iTunes' glacial pace until I can get a new computer in June?
Message was edited by: Nemen
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You will not loose your music if you uninstall Itunes and Reinstall another version. The music is on your hard drive and will stay there for ever (or as long as your hard drive runs). Try this: Reinstall the version of itunes you were using. Make a back up of all your library on cd (you should do this anyway just in case...). Uninstall the itunes and then install the version you want to use. You should then be able to import your itunes library in to the current version of itunes, if it doesn't do it automatically.....

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