ITunes causing music to skip

Hello everyone. Lately, after using iTunes for a few hours the music starts skipping making the computer run choppy. It also skips the mouse and causes programs to timeout. I'm running the latest version of iTunes. I have no spyware, viruses or hijacks. Any idea on what could be the problem?
I have also defragmented the hard drive and updated the audio driver.

You may want to check your soundcard output in QuickTime. See this post for directions on the process: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa;jsessionid=aXxb7IZbMDPmI_4E?messageID=814726&ft=y&#814726
And this Article: iTunes and QuickTime for Windows: Songs and other audio don't play correctly
And before you do any of the above, make sure that you have all the recent Windows Updates from windowsupdate.com. Make sure you have the latest drivers for your particular sound card, and make sure you have the latest DirectX installed. Any of these could also cause this problem without QuickTime being the culprit.

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