ITunes stops 20+ or - seconds into song, then hangs system

Ever since I upgraded to Tiger, I experience these problems with iTunes: a song will play for 20 to 30 seconds (doesn't matter which song, happens with all of them); I click the stop/pause twice and then it plays again for a few seconds; click stop/pause and then it freezes the system.
These are all songs I've copied onto my hard drive from my CDs. I don't own an iPod, so I've never downloaded them to any other device other than my external hard drive as a back up.
Any suggestions? This is driving me crazy.
Thanks,
Mary

I just had this happen to me. It maybe too late to help
you, but, it might help sombody else.
I was reading a web page and listening to itunes.
All of a sudden my music stoped, and I found my cursor
was frozen. Yep my mac had hung. Had to power off and on.
After that itunes could play some songs, but when
I went back to the song it had hung on before
it hung again. Soon everything by that artist caused
a hang. Then every song started hanging after
15-18 seconds of play time. Luckily I back
up my home directory every night. I fixed the
problem by copying the iTunes folder from my backup.
I've been running os 10.4.3 and itunes 6.0.1
pretty much trouble free for several weeks.
I wasn't working the system hard at all when the
problem started. I notice that iTunes updates
the library and xml file after a song has been
playing for about 15 seconds. I don't know why.
I suspect that somehow my library file had become
currupted since replacing it from my bakup seemed
to cure the problem.
If you don't have a backup you might need to
toss the library file and start with a fresh one.
edit - p.s. - so much for "protected memory" preventing
the crash of one application crahing the whole machine.

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