ITunes freezing -- can't import songs

This morning I upgraded the new iTunes, hoping that the bugs from the last version were gone. I'm an idiot.
I went to sync my iPod, and for over 10 minutes, iTunes has been stuck on "Verifying Owner's iPod". Last night, iTunes froze up on me for the first time, while trying to get the 2.5 GB of new music I had imported transferred onto my iPod.
I love my iPod, but the problems with iTunes are making my purchase very frustrating.

It appears that one of the reasons I could not import songs is because iTunes 11 only seems to recognise .mp3 or .aac
I had been trying to import .caf and .aif
The old version used to recognise most audio file types and would also convert mot types to another ........... so long as they were .mp3, .aif or .caf

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