ITunes block unmount on MBP with lion

Hello,
I have some trouble with my MBP using Lion and itunes.
Since 5 weeks I can not shut down my MBP when I run itunes with my mediathek.
To get a better piction of the problem, I tried to isolate the issue.
- I have tested the mediathek using my acoount on my old MB (with Lion and itunes) this mac has no issue to shut down.
Therefor I moved my mediathek to an external drive and select this mediathek with itunes on start up.
Bu I have an issue, when I use this mediathek on my MBP with itunes. After I have used the mediathek on that external drive,
I am not able to unmount the drive or to shut down the mac.
- When I only use an empty Mediathek on my MBP, I do not have this issue and can shut down. the mac.
I also tried to fix permissions
I update all apps and all update packages mac suggest. A long time I had the issue some update were not possible becaus I was not able to reboot.
By the time i found out, that itunes has this issue, I changed my configuration and itunes to not start any more on start up.
What can I check or do to solve this issue?
Kind regards
Balduin

I'm assuming you've done this, but you don't explicitly say you have, so I'll ask if you've completely shut down your MacBook, waited a few seconds, the started it up again. If you have done this, I'm guessing it didn't help?
Another tip is to repair permissions using Disk Utilities. If that doesn't work you can also repair the disk, but let's leave that one for last. Try the shut down and cold-boot first, then repairing the permissions.

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