Itunes 9.0.1 not responding

I recently upgraded to itunes 9.0.1 on my mac.
I've never had any problems with itunes before.
But now, when I open it immediately tries to load genius, gets as far as "gathering information from your library" and then it freezes and the little "not responding", spinny wheel thing comes up.
I've tried to stop it from attempting to load genius. But I don't seem to be able to.
The only way I can get out of it is to force quit itunes.
I know all my music is still there, because I can search for it in the finder. It opens in itunes and starts to play. But itunes is essentially frozen and it will only play the one song at a time, when I open them through the finder.
I really need to get this sorted out as I'm going insane without my music.
Can anyone please help resolve the issue?
Message was edited by: morgan716

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Thank you for contributing to Apple Support Communities.
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