ITunes 7.0.1 makes the Finder process go mad

Hi all,
I've upgraded to iTunes 7.0.1 today and every time I launch it, the fans of my Macbook start blowing like mad (even if I quit iTunes)
It seems to me that the Finder process starts consuming way too much CPU as soon as this new version of iTunes is launched.
I "solved" the problem by opening a terminal and typing "sudo killall Finder" but this is clearly not something that I want to do regularly.
Any idea of what is happening?

The problem has been solved. The fans behave normally now... Seems that Apple reacted quickly.

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