ITunes load CPU when idle

Good day!
Today I watched another surprise from wonderful iTunes - it consumes 13% of Core i7 CPU i. e. resources from the whole processor thread when idle! I wasn't doing anything at that moment, didn't listen music and so on. There were also no messages in status bar - just the silent stupid apple.
Do you have any ideas about iTunes was doing and how to prevent this annoying behaviour?
Message was edited by: usamytch

OK... so I uninstalled iTunes 10.1.2 along with Bonjour, Apple Mobile Device Support, Apple Software Update, and Apple Application Support. I then installed iTunes version 10.0 and I didn't experience the problem at all. Just to be sure I then uninstalled everything again and reinstalled 10.1.2 and I again experienced the problem. So... I uninstalled 10.1.2 and went back to 10.0. I'll stay there until Apple fixes the issue in 10.1.2.
However, I do still have a problem. Version 10.0 will not open my library that was updated with 10.1.2. I know I can import all my albums back into iTunes. However... I will lose all my playlists if I rebuild the library from scratch.
Is there any way to get my playlists that were updated under 10.1.2 into a 10.0 library? I have all the files .itl and .itdb files from my 10.1.2 library.
Thanks in advance.

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