ITunes 10.6.1.7 unstable

After upgrading to iTunes 10.6.1.7, I'm experience 2 new issues:
iTunes periodically crashes, generating a Windows error report and has to be restarted. This appears random as I'm not actually doing anything in iTunes when the crash occurs - it is just running in the background. It is possible that it is related to Home Sharing as another computer and Apple TVs access the shared library on this box. This is running on Windows 7 64-bit.
The second issue is that Apple TVs are sometimes unable to access the shared library. This seems to be fixed temporarily by restarting iTunes.
I'm not necessarily looking for help as nothing has changed on the computer and these probllems just cropped up, so I think it is probably an issue in iTunes itself. Just wanted to report the problem.

I'm not necessarily looking for help as nothing has changed on the computer and these probllems just cropped up, so I think it is probably an issue in iTunes itself. Just wanted to report the problem.
You can report the issue directly to Apple if you like. (We're a user-to-user community, so there's no guarantee that an Apple person will see your report here.) Here's a link to the iTunes product feedback form:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

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