ITunes 11 painfully slow with iPad

I "upgraded" to iTunes 11 and got a new iPad about the same time, so I'm not sure which is the problem, but doing anything with iPad is riduculously slow. Very often, if I switch tabs, app screens, etc, I get the "spinning wheel of death" - sometimes for several minutes, and the Activity monitor says iTunes is not responding. Then it will work fine for a few minutes and happen again. It's extremely annoying. It seems to get better after I use it for a while,
but normally I just want to do one thing (like add a movie or rearrange the app screens) and it takes forever. It's extremely annoying.
I have a 2.7 GHz iMac w/ 4 Gb of memory and OS 10.6.8. According to the Activity monitor, nothing appears to be using either excessive
memory or CPU time when this happens.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Also getting similar with 5 of our macs at work running Lion with 8GB ram MBP's.. iTunes 11 is very slow with all iPads for the most simple of tasks (pushing a small video for example).
Is there an update coming soon?

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