ITunes Causing Desktop to Flicker

Hi
Clicking on the Play, Next or Previous buttons (when a track is playing) cause the Desktop to flicker to grey. Tapping the right/left and Next/Previous on the keyboard has the same effect. Tapping the keys multiple times, in recognised by iTunes, the song name changes in now playing box but the desktop still only flashes once.
Same happens in Safe Mode.
Quicktime screen video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hxait1qJ3E&feature=youtu.be
Cheers
Tim
Apple MacBook "Core 2 Duo" 2.4 13" (Unibody)
Late 2008/Aluminum - MB467LL/A - MacBook 5,1 - A1278
4gb RAM Nov 2011
10.7.4
iTunes 10.6.3

There are a number of things you could do. One would be to network the two computers and transfer your iTunes folder from one to another. You can also if you have one, use your iPod as a hard drive and move the folder with it though that would be considerably slower than computer to computer. Here are a few links that may help you out:
New PC & moving iTunes library
Copying songs over a network to use with iTunes for Windows
iTunes: Copying music between authorised computers with iTunes for Windows
How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer

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