ITunes 10.6.3 freezing on my Mac

Hi everyone,
I have a Macbook (version 10.6.8).
I can load up iTunes (version 10.6.3) just fine, and I can scroll through the library without any problems. However, as soon as I play a song, iTunes will freeze. What's weird is that the track will play perfectly fine, but once it's done, I have to force quit it and open it back up if I want to play anything else. This also happens when I try to sync my iPhone 3GS (version 5.1.1) to my Macbook. It will freeze as soon as I plug it in, and I can't do anything with it.
Has this happened to anyone else? It was working fine after I updated everything, and it just suddenly started freezing like this as of a few days ago. I really don't know what to do.
Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
-Flagon

Okay, really strange. As of right now, everything is working.
So I guess my post is more of a hypothetical question if/when the problem happens again, haha.

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