ITunes causing Beachball of Death bringing down the whole computer.

My iTunes problems started about 3 months ago. Whenever I use iTunes (playing a song, downloading a podcast, syncing my iPhone, etc...) I get the beachball which never goes away. iTunes finishes playing the song that is currently playing but I am not be able to do anything with the program itself. Initially for about 15-20 seconds I can switch to other programs like the Finder or Safari but eventually those become frozen with the beachball as well. After about 20-25 seconds the whole computer locks up. I have tried to force quit but cannot even get that dialogue box to do so. I eventually have to power down the computer manually (switch in the back) and turn it back on. This problem does not happen every time I use iTunes but most of the time. Tends to happen when I am trying to do multiple things. I can sync my iPhone usually without a problem. But it seems if I try to play a song as well then I will get the problem. I am running ITunes 8.2.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.7 on an iMac 3.06 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB of ram (installed by apple). This issues only happens with iTunes and no other program.
What I have already tried to fix the problem without benefit --
1. Delete the iTunes Library and rebuilding it (multiple times).
2. Reinstalling iTunes and upgrading to the latest version.
3. Using the Disk Utility to repair the Disk Permissions and Repairing the main Disk of the computer where the ITunes Library resides.
4. Checking the computer for viruses (Virus Barrier X5)
5. Reinstalling Leopard and then upgrading back to 10.5.7
6. Bought Disk Warrior -- installed it and Leopard on backup external HD and checked the main HD of the computer for issues with Disk Warrior. It fixed a few issues like permissions but nothing that fixed the problem.
7. Deselected Movies, TV Shows, Audiobooks, Genius, Radio, iTunes DJ and Ringtones (I need Music, Podcasts and Applications) from the General Prefs -- made it faster but did not fix the problem.
8. Deinstalled DIVX and Flip4mac.
My computer almost never froze before these past 3 months and I was real proud of that. Now I am just frustrated. Scanning the internet shows similar problems but not exactly the same. I am out of ideas. I will be eternally grateful for any other ideas that might lead to a fix. I am trying to avoid backing up and then wiping the HD and doing a clean install.

Same problem here. Jumped through all the hoops. This is my new, thought-it-would-be-a-real-efficiency-boost audio production machine. I've lost soooo much production time dinking around with this.

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"Ratnakar Sonti" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Hi,
Here is my problem:
My weblogic portal 7.0 application should run in 24x7 environment. The
production
system is running in a cluster mode with external staging. Both the managed
servers
are pointing to the same application sync database.
So to give a solution to this problem, we are trying to bring down one
managed
server down and apply the patches into that managed server without bringing
down
the other. Since webflow files and entitlements needs to be synchronized
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might
be a chance that it might corrupt the existing portal database state.
Our deployment
would not be complete unless we perform a sync on the other managed servers.
So
we could not able to update the latest pathces into the cluster without
bringing
down the cluster.
What I would like to know is "Is there any work around to get rid of
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