Importing songs/downloading podcasts results in crticial memory error

Hello folks,
I have a problem with iTunes that I have been trying to solve over the past year and a half that renders the program unusable. For the record, I run a Windows XP Pro Service Pack 3 machine, with a Pent 4 CPU, 2 gigs Ram.
When importing songs, playing music, or downloading podcasts, my computer will eventually return a memory write error, and iTunes will crash shortly after. It does not matter in how large or small a batch of songs are being imported, how many or few podcasts are being imported. Eventually the system will return the error regardless. In addition, this error occurs only in the drive where the music files themselves are housed. I separate my program installs, my files, and my system files across three different drives, so it's only whatever read/write processes that iTunes uses when accessing files that causes the memory error.
Before anyone starts talking about how this is a dangerous sign that the drive that houses my music is about to die, this is an isolated error that only occurs when iTunes is run, and never occurs at any other time in the five+ years I've owned the computer. Once this error occurs and iTunes shuts down, my computer will continue to return errors with the mft file table, which will disappear once I restart my computer with no harm done to the files or any losses.
In order to fix this problem, I have uninstalled iTunes, reinstalled newer and older versions of iTunes, as well as followed the official procedures for completely stripping iTunes from my system in order to install completely cleanly, in order to see if there is a conflict between older installs of iTunes or other programs.
Does anyone have any idea what might be the problem? I can only assume that iTunes, for whatever reason, is not playing well with my system set up. My system specs are all above the minimum required to run iTunes according to Apple, so I do not -think- this is a problem with the computer running out of memory. I have also run itunes with a plentiful amount of free space on the drive that both houses the program and the drive that houses the music. Even vague shots in the dark are welcome at this point.
Thank you very much, everyone.

I have finally figured out the problem. It is some corrupt music tracks. Once I delete the corrupt tracks, I can sync using Convert higher bit rate songs to 128.
The culprits are songs which show as if it 728:57:13 (758 minutes!), but are actually only small 51 KB files and are unplayable, or maybe play for a fraction of a second.
For me, these tracks were ripped from CD that had a scratch so they didn't import properly and I never deleted from my library.

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