ITunes 9 on Snow Leopard, HELP!

I have a brand spanking new MacBook (delivered about 3 days ago). A fresh install of Snow Leopard, iTunes 8.2 was working perfectly. Since updating to iTunes 9 I cannot use iTunes at all. I start the program and the dock icon bounces for what feels like an eternity, the activity monitor shows that iTunes is using approx. 90% CPU and around 800-900mb of real memory. It also frequently switches between not responding and showing the itunes instance as normal in the activity monitor. I am extremely displeased with this, as no solution seems to work so far. I've used a mac for a while now and made sure to repair disk permissions and restart etc, the usual suspects didn't help me. I finally had enough and tried to downgrade to iTunes 8.2 (following the instructions in the apple KB) but now that follows the same pattern as iTunes 9 regarding memory and CPU usage and finally about 10 minutes after clicking the dock icon the message "Unable to use iTunes library because it was created by a newer version of iTunes" appears.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

You can try following these instructions to remove version 9:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1224
The install of 9 seemed to go fine for me, but the program crashes every time I connect my phone. I followed those instructions to remove iTunes. I reinstalled 8 from my Snow Leopard CD, but it won't even open. 8 worked fine before the upgrade to 9.

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