ITunes Movie Rentals crash iTunes

You read that right. Every time I try and play Live Free or Die Hard on my computer, iTunes freezes and ultimately needs to be Force Quit.
I can't get around it. If I were a gambling man, I'd bet the bug lies in the fact that my iTunes Library lives on an external hard drive rather than my ~/Music/iTunes folder.
Doesn't really matter where it lives, Apple needs to fix this.

I hear ya. I've been looking for info and fighting this white screen freeze up for too long. I thought this was due to the fact my library lives on another internal drive other than my startup disk. Not the case, i transfered my movie over to the startup disk and it still didn't work.
Apple should have not let this be a problem...and yes... fix it!
Message was edited by: Johnsonryan

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