Itunes Locks seconds after loading

Recently my itunes has started to lock just after loading, it opens then begins to check the podcasts then locks, i can do nothing after that point apart from close it from the task manager. i have repaired, uninstalled and reinstalled it but still nothing, it does it regardless of having the ipod connected.

seems to be the podcast issue, and seems to be working after i deleted some partly downloaded tmps

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