ITunes Lagging after replacing the Hard Drive

Hi Everyone -
A recent purchase of a MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz Non-Glossy (12 days ago).
Replacement of the HD from Hitatchi to Samsung 'Ultra Quiet' (my Hitatchi was making funky noises)
Now when I open iTunes (or even Quicktime) to play music, there are MAJOR lags in the system. Spinning Rainbow ball and all. Even after closing iTunes, this still effects the operating system. Mouse is hard to move, programs non-responsive. Total back up.
- Re-installed iTunes 2x - same results.
Any suggestions?
Derek

I am experiencing the same problem.
I recently upgraded my Macbook Pro's hard disk and used Migration Assistant to transfer everything back to my new hard disk.
Now, whenever iTunes, Quicktime player or Front Row is launched, there will be very frequent system halts/lags which lasts several seconds each time. Activity Monitor shows that these processes only take up a minor percentage of CPU usage, and there are no other processes consuming the CPU (idle% >90%). Disk activity is also minimal to none. The problem resolves after quitting these programs.
I have tried zapping the PRAM, clearing system cache, rebuilding permissions and reinstalling Quicktime and iTunes but none of these helped.

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