ITunes 7 is terribly flawed

Every time Apple offered an upgrade for iTunes, I took it. Afterall, Apple, Mac, and iTunes don't have problems, right?
Wrong... terribly wrong in this case.
iTunes wouldn't recognize my iPod's Library, though it correctly read the name of my 30 G Gen 5 iPod.
So I decided (since I have an 80 GB iPod on it's way to me) that's I'd tame iTunes 7 for my present 30 GB iPod.
Wow... I just wasted 5 hours or reorganizing my library and all the lost Playlists.
After reorganizing everything, I rebooted my computer and everything is now gone. 5 hours down the drain.
Apple: friends, you have really blown it with this one. Not just a lousy product, but you've scared me off from buying other products from you. I'm about to alert my listservs about this. I can't believe how bad this is.
Wow... my faith in you is shot in one evening. And now I don't know what I'll do with the 80 GB iPod that will arrive within two days.
Ouch. Somebody call Steve Jobs and get him outta bed!
Charlie
Dell XPS   Windows XP Pro   Pentium D
Dell XPS   Windows XP Pro   Pentium D

I gave up and uninstalled version 7, and then reinstalled version 6. There is a folder in My Music > iTunes called Previous iTunes Libraries. I renamed the latest library to "iTunes Library.itl" and version 6 recognized it. Of course, all the changes since the "upgrade" to version 7 have been lost.
Now my iPod loads in two minutes and my CD's import quickly again.
Remind me, what is the improvement in version 7?? :o)
The official site for how to return to version 6 is
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=642274&tstart=0

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