Itunes Freezing when reading a music file from my external harddrive

I am using I tunes version 8.2.1 and Mac OS X 10.4.11
I am using an external hard drive to house my ITunes Library. I have used this set up before with out issue. I then had a hard drive failure. I recovered my music and was able to reformat. Now when I try to play a song or do anything in ITunes while the hard drive is attached, Itunes is really slow and most of the time does not play the song. I tried uninstalling Itunes but that did nothing and I CAN NOT UPGRADE TO ITUNES 10.
Is this an issue with ITunes or is it the harddrive?

a wma file is a Microsoft file. it will only play in Windows media player and afew other players that have basicly paid Microsoft a fee to have there players able to play wma files. iTunes will not play wma files at all BUT itunes makes it easy as pie to convert those files into something it can play long as there not protected wma's you may have bought online. First goto edit, preferencs. Once there in the settings, hit the "Advance" tab at top, you will see 3 more tabs appear below. hit the "Import" tab there you will most likly want to set it to "MP3" so you will be able to play all songs u import or rip from CDs on iTunes and other apps. Below that you can set the bit rate. after that just rightclick all the songs with the ! beside them and select Import or convert section to MP3

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