Is anybody elses itunes freezing up when opened?

when i open itunes, the rainbow loading wheel pops up and i cant do anything and have to force quit itunes. This only started after i got the new update

Since updating to the most recent version of iTunes I'm experiencing the same type of issue. In my case it appears to be related to iTunes and virtual memory. I've seen it gobbling disk space just when open, not being used, with nothing playing. In the space of a couple of minutes 4Gb of disk space evaporated. The app. shows as not responding in the Dock pop-up menu. Force quitting freed the space again. Left it running yesterday and it eventually ran out of disk space. There is an attendent slow-down in performance of the whole machine (naturally enough) with lots of SPWODs.
I've tried reinstalling and I'm considering reverting to the previous version if I can.

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