ITunes Maxing CPU when next song plays

I installed the latest update of iTunes 7. Since then, while playing songs, iTunes fluxuates from 30% CPU to 65% with it occasionally maxing the CPU to 100% when a new song starts. The music sounds all garbled for about a second or two and locks up my whole machine. Then iTunes CPU drops back to in between 30% and 65% and the song plays fine. This did not happen with the initial release of version 7. Only after the first update was installed. If I pause the songs, the CPU drops down to below 20%. This also happens if iTunes is the only program I have running, just not as often. Any suggestions on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. My laptop has a Intel Pentium M processor 1.60 GHz with 1 GB of RAM.

Sorry for my english ...
I have the same problem too. But I also saw that this appears when at every 10 seconds iTunes alternate/scrowling the artist name and the album name. In full screen, the cpu goes to 70%; in a small window, "only" 35%. When iconified, there is no problem. When it appens at the same time of a new music the sound is ****** for two seconds.
This problem don't appears in the version 6.
How to tell that to apple ?? This must be corrected !
Thanks !

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