Itunes/Coverflow causes System Freeze.

Anyone else having this issue? A few days ago after updating my system to the latest version, my system kept freezing out of no where. Well today I found out that coverflow in itunes, was the problem and everytime I use coverflow my system would freeze up eventually.

I have sent a post lately on another discussion about my itunes crashing: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6747610#6747610
Now I know that the problem is the Cover Flow display options. I get a spinning beach ball only while i'm surfing in the Cover Flow window and then i got nothing to do except restart my MacBook Pro. Since my 10.5.2 and 7.6.1 upgrade the cover flow in itunes is freezing my Mac.
Everything's fine (i've tested it for hours) if i'm not using the cover flow display.
My macbook pro is 5 months old.

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