ITunes brings my PC to its knees during song import

iTunes takes 95-100% of my CPU processing whenever it imports songs from a CD. Basically, it brings the machine to its knees. Also, the import speed is rarely above 2x. I have a Pentium (~400Mhz) with 512Mb of memory. The NEC DVD drive holding the CD is brand new. On my PC at my job, iTunes imports from a CD at 20x, and doesn't bring the machine to a standstill while doing it.
This cannot just be that my PC at work is faster, altho it is. What else can I do?

Here is an article from the apple support website that might help out.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305145

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