How to disable animations

iTunes 7.0.2.16 for Windows has very slow animations when downloading, which cause ~90% CPU usage on my machine. Example stack from the busy thread in the iTunes process:
---8<---
ntkrnlpa.exe!KiUnlockDispatcherDatabase+0x77
ntkrnlpa.exe!KeSetEventBoostPriority+0xaf
ntkrnlpa.exe!ExReleaseResourceLite+0xf3
ntkrnlpa.exe!KiFastCallEntry+0xf8
ntdll.dll!KiFastSystemCallRet
GDI32.dll!NtGdiBitBlt+0xc
QuickTime.qts!DllMain+0x10fd3
QuickTime.qts!DllMain+0x1b9f
--->8---
It's spending most of its time blitting animations to the screen.
How can UI animation be turned off? Or otherwise reduce the CPU usage of the UI animation?

The animation during download that I get is the progress bar under downloads. Is that what you mean?
With my system the CPU load only jumps at the end of each download when it finishes at that time iTunes basically stops responding for 1-3 seconds. During the rest of the download I can move around iTunes as much as I like even at the store.

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