Itunes freezes, it wont open

out of nowhere, whenever i started my itunes, it kept on loading and loading. importing .xml files i have patiently waited for 45 mins, yet nothing happened.
need help badly.

I'm having a similar issue on my Intel iMac. I launch iTunes 8.0.1 and within 3-5 minutes, iTunes beach balls and I must Force Quit the application. I'm not having any such issue on my MacBook Pro. I have a large movie/tv show library which I store on an external 1 TB drive connected to my AEBS. I always make sure I have that drive mounted before starting iTunes so that it can locate any of those files. But I don't know if that's the issue. I really only started having these freezing issues on this iMac once iTunes 8.x came out. I've gone so far as to recreate the library from scratch, remove the preference files, and reinstall iTunes. Still freezes.
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