ITunes Hangs when first opening

I have iMac, late 2009 i7 2.8 with 12 GB Ram. Latest Lion and iTunes. My iTunes library is on an external Firewire 800, 7200, 128 cache HD. I have 17,000 songs. Everything has worked great before. When I open iTunes, everything loads quickly. But, when I go to play a track, I get the Beach Ball for about 90 seconds. Then the track plays fine. After that, all other tracks play fine and instantly. Here's what I have tried
Rebuilding permissions (external and internal drive)
Disk repair (both drives)
Hardware test All OK
SMART Status OK
Removed all playlists
Unplugged and plugged in RAM modules (no luck)
Changed FW cable
Trashed iTunes Preferences
Option click iTunes to change libraries
Removed Focusrite DAC from chain to internal speakers only
All other apps work fine. I have no plug ins or smart playlists. Hangs even if I make a new user account. Please help

Well I finally figured this one out. I defragmented my external HD. iTunes is faster than it ever has been (my itunes media folder is on external drive). I ran Drive Genius and it showed that my external mirror drive was 15% fragmented. You can see specific fragmented files and everyone was an iTunes track. It took 20 hours for the softwar to complete the defrag process and my External HD is running like a dream. I guess iTunes hangs when trying to search for the location of tracks.

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