ITunes 9 Freezes Importing Songs

Since upgrading to iTunes 9 on Snow Leopard, it keeps freezing when trying to import MP3 song files. I double click the song file in the Finder which then tries to import and play it in iTunes. I can usually get one or two to work and then iTunes will hang with a spinning beach ball. The problem is that whatever is hanging, hangs the whole system. Everything is hung and I cannot force quit the application as none of the menus work and the dock is unresponsive. If I leave it sit for a few minutes, the spinning beach ball will eventually freeze as well and stop spinning. This is a hard freeze and the only option is to power off and on. iTunes is the only application running when this happens.
I have been able to add multiple files using the "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder so I'm not sure if this is really an iTunes issue or something in the Finder. Either way, something is very wrong when powering on and off is the only way to regain control of the computer. I was hoping that Snow Leopard would be the answer to always being able to regain control of rogue apps through a force quit but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Anyone have any ideas?

had same problem with itunes 9 and some dj sets i downloaded.the problem seemed to be that the tracks did not have artist or album id tags,just song names.i solved the problem by deselecting the "auto organize" option in the advanced preferences panel.i think the problem was that itunes didn't know where to find the tracks,since they weren't being put into artist or album folders.once i deselected the auto-organize,i was able to add the songs to library and go back and give the artist tags so they could be properly sorted and recognized into albums that itunes could recognize.the spinning beach ball was driving me crazy too.hopefully that works for you as well.

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