ITunes 7 = memory hog?

Question

I've had a lot of the same problems people have already brought up so far; sound playing at 2x speed, stuttering/scratchy audio being the major ones, although I've only had one or two instances of each. The thing that concerns me is how much RAM iTunes now seems to use.
On average, iTunes 4, 5 and 6 never took up more than 45mb of RAM; it had a small footprint and ran efficiently. iTunes 7 seems to average anywhere between 60mb (on a good day) to 100mb, and at one point last night I caught it eating up a whopping 200mb of RAM, something that I don't expect to see outside of the Adobe Creative Suite 2 programs or a few computer games like WoW and Half-Life 2. Even when minimized to the system tray, it can be eating up close to 90mb.
Needless to say, this is ridiculous and so far as I'm concerned it's unaccaptable. Apple, please release a patch and get all of this stuff tightened up. Has anybody else been experiencing this with iTunes 7?
Windows XP Pro

Answer 1

I posted this in a seperate thread, but I thought, and was recommended that it may be more appropriate here...
Here are my system specs:
iTunes 7
Athlon X2 3800+ Manchester
1 GB of RAM
256 MB Nvidia 6200 AGP
Windows XP Professional
I decided to keep a CacheMan 5.5 logfile so I could see how iTunes 7 with Album View was affecting my physical RAM usage. The program began with iTunes in "List View", my standard operating system setup (widgets, Outlook, chat prgrams, etc...), as well as CacheMan and Task Manager running. The results were staggering... Note the times on left.
---------- Begin Test -----------------
5:31:41: Physical RAM usage: 517.1 MB
5:31:43: Physical RAM usage: 516.4 MB
5:31:45: Physical RAM usage: 516.2 MB
5:31:47: Physical RAM usage: 515.6 MB
Began Scrolling Album View
5:31:49: Physical RAM usage: 534.3 MB
5:31:51: Physical RAM usage: 543.3 MB
5:31:53: Physical RAM usage: 544.7 MB
5:31:55: Physical RAM usage: 550.9 MB
36 Seconds Elapse...
Scrolling Previously viewed Album Art
5:32:31: Physical RAM usage: 684.6 MB
5:32:33: Physical RAM usage: 688.6 MB
5:32:35: Physical RAM usage: 688.6 MB
5:32:37: Physical RAM usage: 686.9 MB
5:32:39: Physical RAM usage: 686.2 MB
5:32:41: Physical RAM usage: 685.4 MB
5:32:43: Physical RAM usage: 684.6 MB
5:32:45: Physical RAM usage: 683.9 MB
5:32:47: Physical RAM usage: 682.9 MB
5:32:49: Physical RAM usage: 682.2 MB
5:32:51: Physical RAM usage: 681.4 MB
Begin Scrolling new Album Art
5:33:13: Physical RAM usage: 687.1 MB
5:33:15: Physical RAM usage: 696.7 MB
5:33:17: Physical RAM usage: 702.9 MB
5:33:19: Physical RAM usage: 718.8 MB
5:33:21: Physical RAM usage: 722.8 MB
5:33:23: Physical RAM usage: 733.2 MB
5:33:25: Physical RAM usage: 748.1 MB
5:33:27: Physical RAM usage: 757.1 MB
5:33:29: Physical RAM usage: 774.0 MB
5:33:31: Physical RAM usage: 777.8 MB
5:33:33: Physical RAM usage: 781.3 MB
5:33:35: Physical RAM usage: 784.5 MB
5:33:37: Physical RAM usage: 789.2 MB
5:33:39: Physical RAM usage: 795.3 MB
5:33:41: Physical RAM usage: 801.6 MB
5:33:43: Physical RAM usage: 812.2 MB
5:33:45: Physical RAM usage: 825.6 MB
5:33:47: Physical RAM usage: 836.1 MB
5:33:49: Physical RAM usage: 843.7 MB
5:33:51: Physical RAM usage: 858.2 MB
5:33:52: Physical RAM usage: 868.4 MB
5:33:54: Physical RAM usage: 885.9 MB
5:33:56: Physical RAM usage: 899.3 MB
5:33:58: Physical RAM usage: 906.7 MB
5:34:00: Physical RAM usage: 916.0 MB
5:34:02: Physical RAM usage: 927.6 MB
5:34:04: Physical RAM usage: 937.7 MB
5:34:06: Physical RAM usage: 950.8 MB
5:34:08: Physical RAM usage: 950.0 MB
5:34:10: Physical RAM usage: 962.8 MB
5:34:12: Physical RAM usage: 980.1 MB
5:34:14: Physical RAM usage: 996.0 MB
5:34:16: Physical RAM usage: 1,008.2 MB
5:34:18: Physical RAM usage: 1,010.3 MB
5:34:20: Physical RAM usage: 1,018.3 MB
5:34:22: Physical RAM usage: 1,018.1 MB
5:34:24: Physical RAM usage: 1,018.3 MB
5:34:26: Physical RAM usage: 1,019.5 MB
5:34:28: Physical RAM usage: 1,019.5 MB
5:34:30: Physical RAM usage: 1,019.2 MB
5:34:32: Physical RAM usage: 1,016.5 MB
5:34:34: Physical RAM usage: 1,017.9 MB
5:34:36: Physical RAM usage: 1,015.8 MB
Switched to iTunes "classic" view
5:34:38: Physical RAM usage: 566.3 MB
5:34:40: Physical RAM usage: 564.4 MB
5:34:42: Physical RAM usage: 563.6 MB
5:34:44: Physical RAM usage: 562.8 MB
5:34:46: Physical RAM usage: 562.1 MB
5:34:48: Physical RAM usage: 559.3 MB
5:34:50: Physical RAM usage: 558.6 MB
------------ End of Test --------------
I think this shows the story quite clearly...
I dropped 500 MB in 2 seconds upon closing "Album View"
Hopefully a patch is coming soon...