ITunes 7 out of RAM

Hi,
yesterday I added to all my albums in my iTunes 7 playlist it´s covers to see the wonderful new cover-view and it worked great.
Today morning I also wanted to start iTunes 7 but there comes the error message: "The application iTunes can´t be open. There´s not enough RAM."
But I have a Macbook with 2 GB RAM! I repaired the volume rights and restarted some times but the error still exists. Should I reinstall iTunes7? How does it work? Will I lose all my music and/or preferences?
I could cry, I WANT to hear music so please help me guys.
Thx
Sebastian
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.7) iTunes 7

Hi,
On other threads, people have suggested changing the monitor resolution in System Preferences to a lower resolution, then restarting iTunes. Once iTunes is open, you can then reduce the size of the coverflow window by grabbing the resize bar between the covers and the tracklist and moving it upwards. This worked for me - it consistently opens okay now.
You should have more than enough RAM, depending on what other applications you have running at the time. If you haven't already, you could try repairing permissions with Disk Utility and restarting your Mac.

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First, context may be important: I use iTunes primarily as a Home Sharing home-base to stream my TV Shows and Movies to Apple TVs in my home. As a result, it (as well as the iMac) are on 24/7 with the exception of a daily scheduled task which quits and reopens iTunes to sync unwatched media to my iOS devices at 4:30AM.
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So while I expect iTunes to consume RAM, as it is a very resource-heavy and busy media center hub, I am surprised by the amount of RAM being consumed here and was wondering if anyone might be able to clarify whether I should consider this a "problem" or just iTunes being iTunes; and if it isn't a problem, are there still any suggestions toward how I could minimize RAM consumption? I realize that I have RAM to spare, but when I get into video conversions, music playback, and work on this computer (all the while my wife is streaming a video across the house on an Apple TV), I do want to make sure I'm not wasting memory on an application that might be ballooning unnecessarily (it is, after all, 6X the consumption of the next app in line).
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I have resolved my issue with iTunes' RAM consumption and wanted to post the solution for anyone who might be experiencing similar symptoms. It was really quite simple to fix, I just didn't see it for what it was:
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