ITunes 7.01 Stuttering on MBP

Good morning,
I know there are a million issues with iTunes 7, but I haven't seen too much about stuttering on the mac side.
I upgraded to 7 and then 7.01 on my MBPro, and am having a terrible stuttering problem. It tends to be when mail is checking and downloading new mail and/or any other network activity. It certainly wasn't this way before. I don't have much open, and I have 2g of ram. I am connected to an external monitor (have tried my 17" and my 30" and it does it on both.)
Any ideas on this, or is this just a current "feature"?
Thanks.
sqe

I concur: iTunes 7, while nice and fancy, performs much worse than iTunes 6 on my 15" Powerbook G4. (1.67 Ghz, 80Gig HDD, 1 Gig RAM, 10.4.8) I don't usually have stuttering issues, but instead get the "Spinning beachball of death" every few minutes. Looking at activitiy monitor, this occurs most often when iTunes fires up the hard drive.
I'm a person who tends to skip to different parts of songs (that is, makes very good use of the scrubber bar!), and usually skip around in playlists, depending on my mood. I realize this doesn't help, but this is still unacceptable. When I skip songs, it plays fine for 30 seconds or so, then goes into freeze mode for around 5 seconds (although it sometimes takes >20) while it accesses the drive. Should I change songs again, the freeze is back!
This gets VERY irritating when attempting to A. Find a song lost in the library. B. Add album art manually - it's ALWAYS SPINNING! Argh!
In iTunes 6, these types of performance issues rarely occured - at least I never noticed one! What's suprising is that my Powerbook seems far more sluggish than our 7-year-old PowerMac G4 on iTunes! Wow. Considering the G4 barely meets Tiger's requirements and audio playback takes 30% of CPU time, this is very odd. To be fair, the Powerbook's drive is a 5400 RPM, while the G4 has 2-7200 RPM drives in it (still on original ATA 66 bus).
So, does anyone have any fix, or optimization ideas?
I'm about to post my own thread - specifically for that question.
-Dan

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