ITunes 7 - Skipping

My iTunes was working perfectly on my new laptop with iTunes 6....then I upgraded to iTunes 7 and I noticed some songs every so often had a little jump/skip in them.
Anyway, I was ok with that but since the second upgrade to 7.0.1 it's started to do it all the time in like every song and it's sooo annoying.
I have updated all my sound drivers on the PC. It plays sound on DVD's and other places perfectly and it is top of the range so it's just an iTunes issue.
Any ideas?

I had the same problem with skipping and studdering, here's a list of what worked for others and for me...
Things that have worked for other people:
1) Turn off crossfade (iTunes Prefs)
2) Turn off Sound Enhancer (iTunes Prefs)
3) Change the bit rate in the Quicktime Control Panel (on the audio tab) 48khz seems to have worked for some people)
4) Make sure audio effects are disabled for your sound card (could be anywhere depending on the sound card)
What worked for me:
I had to back grade my Sound Blaster Live drivers to the original Win2k drivers
What worked for another soundblaster live user:
He stopped using the Sound Blaster Live and switched to the onboard audio card on his machine

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