Itunes acting up in one user

Hello all,
I have two users in my mac and iTunes is getting ridiculously slow in one of the users. With he other user is fast as it should be, no complains. I tried deleting the preference file (plist) and import all over again like starting from scratch without any luck at all.
Is there anyone with the same problem?
I'm open to any suggestion.
Thanks,
Alex.

Well never mind my first theory. Turns out I had only 'my processes' showing in the other user instead of ALL.
It's there, both users... the evil kernel_task eating up 1GB of my RAM.
Hungry bastages!

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