ITunes pausing mid-song

I am a Mac veteran using the latest version of iTunes (6) and operating system (Tiger) but am disappointed to have discovered that my music pauses for a second or two with almost every track played!!!
I used to enjoy using iTunes to play music at parties etc but now feel embarrassed that I'll be let down with the playback quality! What's going on???
Has anyone else noticed this or is there an easy solution that I don't know about!
All comments welcome!

Thanks Roger! Problem is, I already got 6.01 & there appears to be no update yet! I just hope that this issue is addressed with the next update as I've seena few other posts relating to similar problems!
Maybe I'll try to re-install an older version that was more reliable with the basic task of music playback. After all, thats what we want at the end of the day!

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