ITunes still freezing at 9th second

iTunes 8 does not address this problem, which exists for large (160GB) iPod classics.
If I try to play a song from my ipod thorough iTunes, it will freeze up for about
10 seconds, taking up 99% of CPU power. The freeze will also happen if I create a playlist, move a song within a playlist etc.
See the original thread here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7038210

iTunes 7.6.2 (9) does not address this problem.
It is hard to believe a problem this bad could be allowed to continue for so long. I suspect it is related to the way the song database on the ipod classic is encrypted. So every time the database needs to be updated the whole thing has to be re-encrypted which uses too much CPU and causes the freeze.
Is there any other software out there that I can use instead of iTunes?

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