ITunes crashes editing video metadata

So, I'm importing h.264 videos of TV shows into iTunes. As you know, it defaults to putting the episodes into the "movies" tab. I go to the file and "get data" to change it to a TV show and around half of the time iTunes crashes when I hit the OK button. Interestingly, iTunes moves the actual file into the "TV Shows" folder before it crashes but doesn't move the show to the TV Show tab.
I have 7.4.3 & I reinstalled and it didn't help.
Any ideas?

Hi,
I don't want to claim that I have a solution, but I have something that worked for me.
My SATA drive is attached on a RAID controller, but I was not using a RAID configuration. I was able to make a BIOS selection to use IDE mode (so no RAID and no AHCI).
This change should normally require a reinstallation of the OS, but I was able to avoid that by preparing the machine first. The preparation involved doing a substantial registry merge according to the instructions posted here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082/
Be aware of the caveats and warnings in the knowledge base article, including "Although Microsoft does not support this method..." Also be aware that this fix was designed for Windows XP, but several of us have found it can work in Vista. YMMV.
If it does work, you can make the same disk hardware act in IDE mode which completely cleared up my problems with displaying video content in iTunes/QT and also solved my issue with lengthy (20-30 mins) delay before synchronization with an iPOD .
I would warn again that this is a risky procedure. It may not work on your hardware, and could render you machine unbootable, with consequent loss of your important data. Even if that disaster doesn't happen, it can result in Windows Activation thinking that your hardware has changed too much so that you have to reactivate your Windows Vista by telephone.
Probably the value of this information is more to prove that SATA/AHCI operation is broken under Vista with my particular RAID contoller chipset and that this problem only shows when very heavy disk activity is demanded by an application, such as by iTunes.
--dsdreamer.
Dell XPS Intel Core 2 Duo Other OS Windows Vista

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