ITunes 11: playback keeps pausing in random spots.

My songs keep stopping in random places, and then playback will continue. The same thing has started happening when I try and watch movies through iTunes as well.
It is as if the songs have trouble streaming through iTunes (if that is even possible), but its like watching a youtube video with poor internet connection.
Is there any way to fix this, or should I take it in to the apple store to get it checked out?
I am currently using the latest version of iTunes and did not have the problem before I updated to iTunes 11.

I'm seeing similar behavior, although it doesn't usually pause in the middle of a song, it will pause between songs and syncing with the iPhone now also causes it to pause, with the spinning beach ball and the Dock icon's context menu showing "Application Not Responding".
My details:
Model Identifier: MacBook1,1
Processor Speed: 1.83 GHz
Memory: 2 GB
System Version: Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S2167)
Hard drive (WD):
Capacity: 232.57 GB
Available: 18.58 GB
File System: Journaled HFS+
41,780 songs (yes, they are all legit and no I don't sync them all to my iPhone

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