ITunes freezes on startup every time - reboot always needed.

Hi all,
I'm on Snow Leopard, fully up-to-date, and the version of iTunes I have crashes on startup every single time, and the only way I can recover my system is to reboot my MacBook.
The process is:
1. Start iTunes from dock.
2. iTunes opens
3. "Analyzing Song Volume" appears in the top-center iTunes dialog box.
4. iTunes freezes
5. Reboot.
I've tried deleting the track it's analyzing and it made no difference - it seems to think the track still exists as the same track name pops up in the dialog box every time before it freezes.
iTunes is thus completely unusable on my system, which means my iPhone's gone far too long without a backup, any help would be hugely appreciated, thanks!

try this:
quit iTunes. move the following file to the desktop: <MacintoshHD>/users/<yourname>/library/preferences/com.apple.iTunes.plist
fire up iTunes (which will create a new .plist file). if it works now you can trash the plist file you moved to the desktop.
JGG

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