Is there a song limit capacity for iTunes?

I've been having issues with iTunes ever since I passed the 50,000 song mark. At more than double that, 100,000+, iTunes has been very slow and very frustrating to work with. I would rather load the songs onto my iPod and listen to them from there than listen to them in iTunes. Hitting the pause button has taken up to 30 seconds before iTunes responds.
All my tunes are located on an external 2TB USB 2.0 Hard drive. This could be part of the issue which I would understand, but iTunes is slow even when the hard drive is not connected and I am working with it.
Hope I can figure this out soon, maybe I just need a faster Mac? I have 4 GB RAM, more RAM?

pyrothebouncer,
I'm not sure i understand, is ALL of your music located on the external? And if so, do you listen to it without moving it to your iTunes library, if so, depending what connection you have to your external hard drive that could judge the speed at which itunes responds because of the path it has to take to start/stop and find the song. If not, it could just be that your computer is being overloaded by media.
Hope this helps,
Ryan

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