ITunes 11.3 - freezing, clunky, beachball, broken - terrible update

Before I begin - can I just say that I love iTunes - and have used it for years and years - no probs. It's been a great app to manage my music and podcasts - which it has done flawlessly - until now that is....
Today updated to iTunes 11.3 - and all I can say is that I dearly wish I hadn't. I mainly use iTunes to manage my podcasts, and I subscibe to a lot of them- over 50 in fact.
However this version of iTunes for me is is totally unusable with them. I cannot scroll through podcasts lists, without it either jumping all over the place or the beachball showing up.
It has made what was a joy into a totally frustrating experience. This version of iTunes for me is basically broken.
and I know it can't just be me, cuz I have started to see other posts all over the interweb from others experiencing similar issues.
seems only to affect podcasts.
Basically version 10.7 was absolutely fine - But these latest versions of iTunes from 11.0 onwards have been utterely terrible
If anyone knows any solutions to the buggy, jumpy, clunky, beachball inducing issues that I am experiencing, please help to ease my pain.
For others - if you haven't upgraded - my advice is to think twice before you do.
For me, I think it's going to have to be a Time Machine roll back to better days.

It's still the same - I have basically totally reverted back to an old version of itunes - as it basically was stopping me from using / enjoying podcasts
and my old version of itunes (v10.7) works brilliantly with podcasts again on my iMac
Only downside is that I also had to roll back my iPhone ios back to 6 to work with it
But for now would rather have smooth scrolling podcasts than anything ios 7 can offer me
I just can't undersatnd why Apple have created a new version of iTunes that basically doesn't work properly - and at the end of the day scrolling a list of podcasts shouldn't be a difficult feature for them to implement? Very frustrating

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