ITunes getting sluggish

I should be thankful - I rarely see any of the little technical glitches that many of the folks who write on this forum do. But my library of nearly 18,000 songs and 200 or so movies and podcasts seems to be taxing my iMac's ability to keep up. I'm running 10.4.11 with all the latest updates and iTunes 7.7 on a 2GB early iMac G5 (before the camera was built in). This problem has been going on for some time, though, and it happens when I do things like select all the songs in an album, select "Get Info" to insert a comment into each song's file, and then hit the "OK" button. I almost immediately get the whirling rainbow sphere, and it takes more than a "reasonable" amount of time for all 12 or 15 records to update. I get the rainbow spinner a lot just navigating around in the library as well, and it's getting to the point of distraction. Library too large? Too much album artwork? Too many playlists (I have LOTS)? I also have lots of songs (downloaded) that are marked as part of compilations. Any suggestions appreciated. The music will go on and only get larger, but I'd like it to not be frustrating at the same time.
Mike

OS and iTunes library files are on the same (internal) hard drive, which has 455(+) GB free space on it. However, I just moved the music from a 300 GB external drive to the internal drive because I was beginning to notice the slowdown, but the move didn't improve the situation. I suspect that the number of playlists is the real issue - I'll run with that one and see if things improve. Thanks.

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