ITunes 10.3.1 64bit hangs and freezes constantly

Ever since I downloaded iTunes 10.3.1 on my Windows 7 machine I can barely use it! Everything I tell iTunes to do, whether its adding a song to a playlist, or playing a song, is met with a good 30-60 second "hang" before it performs that command. I have read on the forums that people are having trouble with freezing when performing certain tasks, but this freezes on everything!
I have tried rebuilding my library and completely uninstalling and reinstalling itunes/quicktime/bonjour/software update/application support. Nothing works.
Any advice or suggestions? Thanks in advance!

I have the same issue. I took it the genius bar and called talked to tier 2 phone support. They have standard thing where you uninstall all apple software in a certain order and then reinstall 64bit itunes. That did nothing (tried it 4 times).
I've gotten two clues so far.
One is that at the store if I plug someone else's iphone 4 in then itunes acts the same way. So it is not the phone. Two is tier 2 phone support told me to try syncing it with a fresh user account (an admin one). I did that and itunes was just fine, it did not freeze.
So there appears to be some conflict with the software, music files, whatever that is on my current user account (also an admin account). I ran virus and malware detectors and found nothing. Now I'm going to try putting my music, movies, apps, etc in the new user account and see if the phone will sync then.
I know its not much but thats where I'm at. I hope it helps.

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