ITunes 9 Hanging on Updating library

When I start iTunes 9, I see a window that says it is updating my library. There is no cancel button. At around 5% it just stops and hangs.
I killed it twice and when I tried to restart iTunes, I get a "file locked" error. Reverted to the one that the update created for me (thanks apple), started it up and it hangs on 5%. Last time I waited over 1.5 hours. Activity Monitor shows it as not responding. I have just over 6000 songs under music.
This was is a previous post but the person who started it seemed to have worked it out. I am still having the issue.

I waited 3.5 hours for it to complete.
It was not frozen, the application was still responding, but nothing could be pressed and it just pinged at me.
In desperation, I wrote a long post to this forum. The instant I pressed post, iTunes went from 5% complete to 100%.
I recommend just waiting, but I really hope Apple addresses this soon.
I also apparently cannot use this forum interface.

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