ITunes "eats" memory and closes down after 4 hours use

iTunes plays alright about 4 hours, then it closes down and need a restart.
I have watched iStat and notice that free memory shrinks as iTunes plays.
It seems like iTunes is building up a buffer/file and when this file is bigger then the memory can hold - it crashes?
Do anyone know what this problem is and medicine?

The problem dissappeared with last update,
iTunes/Quicktime.

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Problem Event Name:          APPCRASH
Application Name:          iTunes.exe
Application Version:          10.2.1.1
Application Timestamp:          4d756476
Fault Module Name:          MediaToolbox.dll
Fault Module Version:          1.0.694.3
Fault Module Timestamp:          4d4d9a00
Exception Code:          c0000005
Exception Offset:          0034a672
OS Version:          6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID:          2057
Additional Information 1:          fd00
Additional Information 2:          ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3:          fd00
Additional Information 4:          ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160

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