ITunes stops responding

I have an iMac G4 1.25 GHz (with 10.4.10) with 1MB of RAM and an external Seagate 300 GB HDD connected via Firewire. I store my iTunes library on the HDD. It has worked fine until a couple of weeks ago. iTunes was trying to download 50+ podcasts and it stopped responding. The HDD was acting funny so I used Disk Utility to repair it and it said it had a minor bitmap problem. It has been repaired a few times over the past couple of weeks, but for the most part, the drive works fine. Something happens, though, every time I open iTunes. I downloaded iTunes again and reinstalled it. I trashed the iTunes folder in my My Music folder on the internal hard drive with the intention of re-adding the music on the external to the iTunes library. Nothing works. Any ideas? I thought it was the external hard drive, but iTunes seems to lock up before the drive seems to have any problems.

No, I do not have Shapeshifter (nor do I know what it is). I believe the problem is the HDD; I brought it to my main computer and it acted similarly here. I'm glad I bought a new main drive a couple of months ago. I have a Maxtor drive in an Adaptec enclosure that has lasted for years, but this Seagate failed after only a couple of years. My new main drive is a WD My Book; I like it but it only has a one-year warranty. I may buy one of the new Maxtor OneTouch 4+ drives, though I am concerned that they are now owned by Seagate.

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