ITunes locking up during CD playback

Hello, I am running iTunes 7,5 with the new Leopard operating system. I notice now that when I'm listening to a CD in iTunes (one that I have not imported), every second song or so locks up iTunes. It seems to start the song for about 1 to 2 seconds and then locks up. All I get is the spinning disc icon and the only way to stop it is with a "alt, apple, esc.". When I do that, it comes up as iTunes (not responding) and closes it up.
I am then forced to reopen iTunes and go from there and have it happen again witthin 2 songs.
Can anyone help with this?
Thanks in advance.

Hi Joel,
I've noticed the same thing (I'd just come here to post about it when i saw your message).
maybe it's not been noticed much yet because i presume more people play music from their libraries than from a CD…
it's happened on 2 CDs for me so far, and on both - the first track plays fine and then iTunes just stops after a few seconds of the second track (in album order). If i double-click another track, iTunes plays another second of the second track (not the one i clicked on) and then becomes unresponsive.
The first CD this happened with then disappeared from the desktop and i had to restart to get my Mac to realise it still had a disc in its' drive!

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