ITunes 7.7 taking longer to load than previous version

After upgrading to iTunes 7.7, I noticed it's taken significantly longer to load than the previous version. On average, I see iTunes 7.7 take between 3 to 5 minutes to load.
No taskbar icon.
No system tray icon.
I can hear the hard drive spinning. I've already defragmented the hard drive, scanned it for issues and checked drivers, and still iTunes 7.7 takes much longer to load. I thought it froze a few times so I used CTRL-ALT-DEL and brought up the Task Manager to close it thinking it froze, but it doesn't show up in the Applications tab, but under the Processes tab.
I have Windows XP SP3, 4 GB DDR2 667 RAM, Athlon X2 5000+.
Is there a fix for this ? Or, has anyone else gotten this same problem?

If the PC is running Norton, try this - upgrades to iTunes sometimes don't get recognized by Norton
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nip.nsf/0/7fb6e478e2a1abf78825708b00558625? OpenDocument&seg=hm&lg=en&ct=us
Just google for 'old itunes versions' if you decide to roll back to v7.6.

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