Itunes 8.1.1.10 + vista = strange delays and high cpu

I had this problem with 8.1 originally, but hoped it would fix itself with an upgrade it does not. I'm running a Dell Studio 1535 with Intel core 2 duo CPU [email protected] and 4GB ram. This machine has always been fairly zippy. It's running AVG + ZoneAlarm and it's free of virii.
iTunes is very unresponsive. Taking several (up to 6) seconds to respond to commands. Those would be clicking a new song*, asking for one of the pulldown menu items, scrolling in coverview, etc. I looked at the task manager and I noticed that when iTunes is idle, just in the forground with the focus, it burns almost one complete cpu. The cpu runs for several seconds, takes a sharp dip and returns almost immediately back to almost 100%. I have a screenshot, but I don't think I can post it. I'm not talking about playing any music or anything. The rest of the computer is basically idle, but iTunes is cranking CPU for no apparent reason.
Is anyone else having this problem? does anyone have any suggestions? I've had lots of problems with vista and itunes in the past, but this is too much. I'm really frustrated.
Thanks
Matt
* When I say clicking a new song, I'm not talking about changing from one song to another. I'm simply trying to hilight a song and then select another one. It also takes forever to start or stop music playing.

I just got off the phone with Apple Support. We did a long set of disabling/enabling services and start up programs and have isolated this problem to my fingerprint reader.
Here is the support article that shows to to check for conflicts in vista.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2292?viewlocale=en_US
As a temporary work around I have disabled the startup item "DigitalPersona Personal" and the services item "Biometric Authentication Service" both by DigitalPersona, Inc.
This disables my fingerprint reader but fixes the slowness in iTunes. I will contact DigitalPersona and see if they have updates to their software.

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    Use Search to locate any and all files and folders that reference itunes or quick time. Of course do not touch your music folder.
    Delete all these references to itunes and quick time.
    Reboot.
    Download a standalone version of Quick time and install.
    Download Itunes (I used version 7.4.1 that I obtained from Oldapps.com.)
    Once this was done I was able to run itunes on my laptop. I did upgrade to 7.5 but I could not get my sons nano 8GB to sync so I reverted back to 7.4.1 and it works just fine.
    I have yet to get itunes working on My wifes vista laptop and it quit working on my XP desktop some time ago (I have never used it and wouldn't care except my son just bought the nano) Itunes a version prior to 7.4 was running on my sons laptop until he upgrade to 7.5 when he bought the nano, just last Friday, and 7.5 totally borked things up. Aside note is that his hard drive crashed a day later, but I don't think that had anything to do with it.
    If you read through this board you will find that itunes and windows are not getting along well at all. If you have a "new" ipod be it nano, classic or what ever I beleive you must use version 7.4 or newer. It seems to me that if Apple really wants floks to buy these things they should be sure the primary piece of software is stable and works!

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