ITunes 10.2.2 on Windows 7: radio streaming problems

I recently got a new Dell laptop for work, with Windows 7 64-bit installed.  I installed the latest Windows 64-bit version of iTunes, pointed it to the library I moved from my old computer, and re-imported all the folders.  Everything seems fine except that many of the internet radio stations don't play correctly.  The ones that don't play sound like they are being "scrubbed" in an audio editor -- choppy, too fast or too slow, with dropouts, beeps, glitches, and frequent re-buffering.  It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the bitrate of the stream, as I have some 128 kbps streams that play and others that don't.
My best clue is that in the "Kind" field of the iTunes "Get Info" popup, most of the streams that don't work say "Internet audio stream" whereas most of the streams that do say either "AAC Internet audio stream" or "HE-AAC Internet audio stream".  (This holds true for about a dozen different streams tested, but I did find a couple exceptions where an "Internet audio stream" works fine.)
I followed the troubleshooting steps in the Apple Support doc, but updating my audio drivers didn't help, my DirectX is up to date (ver. 11), and I don't have any of the programs that were listed as possibly incompatible.  The fact that the problem is not consistent for all streams is really puzzling, making me suspect a missing codec issue, so I installed RealPlayer to see if that might supply them, but nothing changed.
I also noticed that the 64-bit iTunes installs a 32-bit QuickTime -- is that OK? 
Any ideas about what could be wrong?
Thanks.

I recently got a new Dell laptop for work, with Windows 7 64-bit installed.  I installed the latest Windows 64-bit version of iTunes, pointed it to the library I moved from my old computer, and re-imported all the folders.  Everything seems fine except that many of the internet radio stations don't play correctly.  The ones that don't play sound like they are being "scrubbed" in an audio editor -- choppy, too fast or too slow, with dropouts, beeps, glitches, and frequent re-buffering.  It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the bitrate of the stream, as I have some 128 kbps streams that play and others that don't.
My best clue is that in the "Kind" field of the iTunes "Get Info" popup, most of the streams that don't work say "Internet audio stream" whereas most of the streams that do say either "AAC Internet audio stream" or "HE-AAC Internet audio stream".  (This holds true for about a dozen different streams tested, but I did find a couple exceptions where an "Internet audio stream" works fine.)
I followed the troubleshooting steps in the Apple Support doc, but updating my audio drivers didn't help, my DirectX is up to date (ver. 11), and I don't have any of the programs that were listed as possibly incompatible.  The fact that the problem is not consistent for all streams is really puzzling, making me suspect a missing codec issue, so I installed RealPlayer to see if that might supply them, but nothing changed.
I also noticed that the 64-bit iTunes installs a 32-bit QuickTime -- is that OK? 
Any ideas about what could be wrong?
Thanks.

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