Itunes Freeze's when stopping a download

I installed the most recent update and now when I'm downloading podcasts and I want to stop them, Itunes freezes up. CPU usages shoots to 100% and the only way to be able to do anything is to kill the program in task manager. I've tried waiting for it to free up, but that doesn't work.
I'm on Windows XP w/ SP3 and a dial up connection so it takes me a while to download songs.
Thank you!

The music files should stay right where they are, in the music folder.
Reinstalling iTunes will change stuff in the c:Program Files folder.
That being said, it's always a good idea to have backups in case something goes wrong. You do have backups, right?
Also - before every itunes upgrade, you chould also back up the library ITL file which holds all your playcounts, ratings, etc.
I back mine up on a USB stick, or you could just put it in another folder on your hard drive.
Article on the ITL file:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93732

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Wow -- I hope it doesn't take something that extreme...
(And again: gawd I hate Windows!)
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Locale ID:        1033
Additional Information 1:        0a9e
Additional Information 2:        0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3:        0a9e
Additional Information 4:        0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

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