ITune 7.0 awful song distortion

So, amongst the host of other bugs with this release, this is the most aggravating of all for me.
A lot of the music is totally distorted and unlistenable after updating to iTunes 7.0. I can't find any common feature of the distorted songs, it seems to be random, but consistent with the same songs.
It sounds washed out, like an old audio cassette. I found a suggestion that recommended turning off crossfade playback, and after I went to make sure it was off (it already was) and then went back to play a problem song, it sounded fine. Quitting and then reopening iTunes brings back the distorted music.
I've opened the song files in Quicktime 7.1.3 and they're distorted there too, so I'm thinking this a Quicktime issue, but I'm posting here because most people will notice the problem in iTunes.
I'm eagerly anticipating Apple's update, but in the meantime does anyone have any ideas?

Have you tried downgrading the Quicktime engine? That may not be possible. That might not be possible, in fact I think I remember reading something about iTunes not running with out QT 7.1.3. But it might be worth a shot, at least for experimental purposes.

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