Itunes 7 ....importing 3 minute songs taking 15+ minutes

I am trying to import cds with my new itunes 7 to my library ...it is taking 3 minute songs 15 minutes to import. I have tried many different cds . Any suggestions? The old itunes worked great. New itunes not so good.

My best guess is that this particular problem is caused by having too many playlists or too many items (music and videos) in your iTunes library. I have about 160 GB of music and videos in my library, and about 200 playlists. When I try to rip a CD, I get a speed of about 0.1x to 0.5x. Simply appalling! But when I created a new account name in my computer (go to System Preferences and create a new account name), and logged in to my new account name, I ran iTunes and put approx. 1 GB of music and videos in the library and put about 10 playlists in it, my ripping speed jumped to anywhere from 5x to 20x, depending on the CD! So whenever I need to rip a CD, I do it in my new account name and save the songs to my hard drive. Then I go back to my original account name, and transfer the ripped songs to my iTunes library, using the Add Library function in the menu bar. I know it's a pain, but until Apple fixes all the bugs in the new iTunes, I found this workaround to be very effective.
17" iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   PowerPC 2.0 GHZ, 1GB RAM

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