ITunes hangs with spinning beach

Following my update to Snow Leopard I ran iTunes Match and deleted all matched content from my iMac.
I have almost 20,000 tracks.
Since then, on startup or after any change (add, update genre, etc.) the spinning beach ball of death locks iTunes for 10-15 minutes at a time.
I have deleted any iTunes plug ins, etc. I have started up in safe mode. No improvement.
The activity monitor shows iTunes as not responding. But if I wait it out iTunes always comes alaive and dtays responsive UNTIL I make any change again.
During the lock network activity spikes, but I cannot determine precisely what is happening. I have a suspicion the iTunes is matching / updating my entire catalog at the ITMS.
Has anyone a suggestion and/or experienced a similar problem?
Regards,
Alex

Okay, I think I've finally solved my problem. I moved my entire iTunes library from one hard drive to another, then I deleted everything from iTunes (selected all songs, hit delete key, but didn't delete songs from disk) and then reimported them by dragging my Music folder into iTunes.
I'm not sure if moving the songs from one disk to another really helped, but deleting and reinstalling the songs definitely did.
I actually let iTunes perform a "scan for music" to reinstall the tracks, but that never seems to bring in everything. I had to drag in all of my compilation disks and some other miscellaneous tracks. P.I.T.A.
But, the good news is iTunes no longer hangs.

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