ITunes 7.6 uses massive amounts of system memory

When playing music in iTunes 7.6 on cover flow view, I notice from watching the processes tap of Windows Task Manager, that iTunes uses about 70MB of RAM when initially opened but that with each unique album cover it displays (by clicking on different songs from the library), the memory usage increases in increments of anywhere between 4MB and 40 MB. I first noticed the problem when my synchronization program displayed an error message stating that my computer was out of virtual memory. When I looked at the processes tab of Windows Task Manager, iTunes was using over 1GB of system memory (I have 2GB). Any ideas? Thanks!

not only does it hord your memroy.... it loads down your processor as well.
someoneelse mentioned it was trying to convert video files (constantly and never stops trying), and removing the video files should help...it did help, a little... 7.6 still lags and is slowest program I have installed on my PC at the moment.

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