ITunes 7 sloooooowness

I'll cut to the chase: iTunes 7 on my Mac is ridiculously slow. I'm using the latest version on a G5 Dual 2 GHz with 10.4.8. I open the app and I have to wait for the "iTunes library to load", when I quit it I have to then watch as a progress bar again informs me I have to wait for the iTunes library to be saved. I have around 23000 tunes.
Using the app is an exercise in frustration - Double clicking a track while another is playing causes a delay of at least 4 seconds before the next one plays, and pretty much everything else in the app takes ages to do. iTunes 6 never had this issue (with the same # of tracks). My iTunes library is on my second drive, which is a Firewire 800 external but I see no reason why this would cause a problem.
I do like the new features, but it's just slow as treacle on a Mac with plenty of RAM and a more than acceptable amount of horsepower and VRAM. Anyone else suffering this or have any solutions?
Thanks

Actually, I do have some new smart playlists. In total I have 9, plus 8 regular playlists. You may well have hit upon something there, since they must suck up some resources.
I'm a bit confused - If you too get the progress bars, how is it starting up just as fast as 6.0.5 when that did not have any? Do you mean that you just get a bar this time, whereas before you just get dock bounces to count instead? Essentially, you get some eye candy to look at while it loads now?
I don't get the progress bars - I mean, how can we go from instant startup and quit in iTunes 6, to progress bars with 11 seconds to load and another 10 or so to quit in what is supposedly a later and better version? It's a retrograde, surely.

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