ITunes constantly redetermining gapless playback.

My iTunes data is saved on an external hard drive and shared between two computers. I've had it set up like this for about three years but with iTunes nine it began redetermining the gapless playback every time it's used on one computer after being used on the other. It stopped doing it with 9.1 but started up again with 9.2. It takes about an hour to complete the process. Stopping it isn't an option because it just starts up again a few minutes latter and if I'm doing something else, like syncing my iPhone, I get the spinning wheel of death and have to force quit.
Has anyone heard of anything like this, or does anyone know of a way to turn off gapless playback.

You're not the only one! See [this thread|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11881354#11881354].

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Hi,
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Hi everyone- I always get good answers here so hopefully someone will be able to help with my dilemma!
This past week my computer was acting up, but it seemed to repair itself. Just things like Mail forgetting my password, Safari closing by itself, that sort of thing. But the one lingering problem was with my iTunes. When I clicked to open it it had erased all of my playlists, and it was only recognizing about 1,400 of my songs. I called apple, and they had me delete the .xml file and the data file from my iTunes. Then I added my library back in.
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@ Katrina S: Tried, still does it. Thanks though!
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