ITunes 8.2 not playing any long files

I've had every single episode of the Ricky Gervais XFM shows from years back on my iTunes for about 3 years now, and have listened to them over and over until I installed this latest version of iTunes. It will now no longer let me play any of the shows and will freeze up completely causing me to have to Force Quit it. The files open with no problems in Quicktime and other software, but iTunes fails to recognise them completely. I can't even re-import the files as it just freezes iTunes yet again.
Is there any way I can use iTunes for what it was designed for? Or am I going to have to revert back to the old software?
EDIT: It took about 45 seconds to start playing a 20 minute file just now, but at least that started playing.
EDIT 2: Tried waiting even longer, it took about 2 minutes to start a 58 minute file. This is an absolute joke.
Message was edited by: Moglet85

iTunes for Mac will not import nor play Windows Media Audio files. QuickTime will play them if you have the freeware Flip4Mac codec installed, but that won't work in iTunes. You may be able to convert them with EasyWMA or with QuickTime Pro and the Flip4Mac import codec (not the free version).

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