ITunes 10.6.3 memory leak

Anyone else having issues with iTunes 10.6.3 running on OSX 10.7.4 leaking memory dry and then filling up ALL your disk partition? 
I do - once a week now. I have a small boot SSD, but once iTunes fills up the memory it appears to be creating a 30+ GB swap on the boot drive and just kills my machine.
I watched the apps closely this week, and iTunes had built itself a nice little slice of 4.5+GB of memory.   I have 12GB of memory.  Machine was starting to lock up right before my eyes.  Force quitting iTunes saved the day.
What in the world?  I do connect my Apple TV to my library.

Same problem.
Day after day, running 10.8.1 Mountain Lion here. Today iTunes had snaffled 9.5GB of main memory and 25GB of VM. Wonderful.
I do also have WiFi sync turned on and both iPhone & iPad regularly in and out of the house, I'll try Lewis' solution and report back also.
WiFi Sync NEVER worked properly anyway, occasionally it would be successful, more often than not it'd spew error messages on the desktop. Then when I went to force a sync, it'd give me more errors before proceeding to do what I had just asked it to do...
Starting to get the feeling this company has become heavy on features and very very light on actually completing them to a usable level before unleashing them on us.

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    Instruments indicates a 64Ko memory leak in "AudioServicesCreateSystemSoundID" when I use a sound that I have created with GBand / iTunes. When I use the sound file "tap.aif" from the "sysSound" sample, there is no memory leak.
    What's wrong with my audio file ?
    It's a AIFF file, 95Ko, 8 bit mono 22Khz @ 176kbps.
    thanks...

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  • Memory leak versus inactive memory

    Hi:
    My iMac was becoming painfully slow a year or so ago. This seemed to be due to a lack of RAM, so I upgraded (2 GB to 4 GB total). This worked great, but now I seem to be running out of memory again, even when there are not a lot of programs open.
    I’ve started tracking memory usage with Activity Monitor, and typically a huge chunk of my memory is “Inactive”. I.e., at this time I have 215 MB free, 450 MB Wired, 1.6 GB active, and 1.7 GB inactive. This despite only having Word, Outlook, OmniOutliner, Safari and iTunes open. Under System Memory (in Activity Monitor) it says Finder at 250 MB, Word at 131 MB, iTunes at 120 MB, Outlook at 80 MB, OO at 46 MB, and Dropbox at 34 MB (then a bunch of smaller usages). Even being very generous, the total memory usage only seems to add up to ~1GB, far short of the 4 GB installed.
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    Try a bit of basic maintenance:
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    Go to Disk Utility (this is in your Utilities Folder in your Application folder) and click on the icon of your hard disk (not the one with all the numbers).
    In First Aid, click on Repair Permissions.
    This only takes a minute or two in Tiger, but much longer in Leopard.
    Background information here:
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    and here:
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    An article on troubleshooting Permissions can be found here:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2963
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    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448?viewlocale=en_US
    If you were having any serious problems with your Mac you might as well complete the exercise by repairing your hard disk as well. You cannot do this from the same start-up disk. Reboot from your install disk (holding down the C key). Once it opens, select your language, and then go to Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Select your hard disk as before and click Repair.
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  • Memory Leak..Big Time

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