ITunes has terrible preformance issues

As iTunes has marched along with its myriad of updates, its performance has progressively gotten worse. It seems every time I upgrade (which is usually unnecessary) iTunes gets slower and slower. When I plug in my iPod it hangs for anywhere between 30-60 seconds. When I open it up after a period of relative disuse, it also takes between 30-60 seconds to react. Searching for things or simply trying to open up a playlist creates unacceptable lag. Resizing the window and accessing the iTunes store also have terrible response times. When I first started using iTunes I never had these problems but now they prevent me from using the program quite often.
iTunes also tends to constantly gobble up memory and disk space as it hangs around. I usually leave iTunes open for several days at a time. (since it takes so long to shut down and start up) But after a week of use, I can usually expect the program to have 150 Mb of memory and anywhere from 150 Mb to 350 Mb of virtual space taken up. This also causes shutdown times that can last up to 5 minutes. It has a memory leak it seems to me that is worse than Firefox.
Should I say screw everything and downgrade to an earlier version? I did this once before but I had unfortunately "upgraded" my iPod's software which realized that iTunes wasn't up to par and gave me an error message. (exactly what was so incompatible between versions is beyond me however)
Any suggestions without upgrading my hardware?
Is live updating a bear for the system to deal with?

I have a very powerful PC and it doesn't make a difference. 7.6 is just a mess. Your choice is to either try and go back to an older version (Best - before 7.5), or try winamp which works pretty good, but isn't as user friendly in it's looks (and no good if you've purchased lots of protected iTunes store product).
I agree in full what you've said - this mess of an "update" has really made me rethink my loyalty to iTunes and Apple products

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Log Name:      Application
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Date:          11/27/2011 11:46:01 AM
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