ITunes hangs with smartlist referring to removed list

First of all great job for the performance improvement. Thank you.
Here is another problem hope you will address too:
If there is a smartlist referring to another list that is later on removed, iTunes starts to hang.
It will eventually respond but just take unnecessary long to. It'd do so for every click until the void reference is resovled. That is, it's a pain to wait for it to respond in order to fix the void references. You have to wait so long that even post a problem on the discussion forum barely kill a little of the time even after I preview the posting for so many times.
It's not some obscured situation. When we manage the smartlists, it's not apparent to keep track of what refers to what with just the layout.

Usually these issues can be resolved with updates, in this case updates from www.hp.com and a firmware/software update from sony.com
I went to HP and theres 3 "Flavors" of your laptop some have updates for the chipset/BIOS/ and USB bridge, one even has a update that directly addresses iTUnes when you do a restore on the lap. you will have to go there to find the updates for your exact model (6620DK, 6620SE, 6620TC is the 3 I seen)
Another thing you can do is make sure the laptop is plugged into its AC adapter so you know its not a power issue where the CPU is going into a "Poersaving" mode and then trying to do all this heavy work while unplugged and running on a battery

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