Itunes suddenly freezing when opened!!

hello,
Bizzare, recent, and annoying. When i start iTunes, the window opens, but as soon as it tries to "determine gapless song playback" for the remaining 200 or so songs (it successfully did the other 1000) it locks up (freezes) and the spinning beach ball of death appears. the only way out is with a force quit which is also very laggy. I managed to use my tiger reflexes and hit the little 'x' stop button in time, at which point iTunes seeme dto be working normally again...but a minute or so after the beach ball re-appeared this time and once again the whole thing freezes.
Apple: this is very very frustrating as iTunes is my main Audio-CD burning, music downloading and music listening app. Please don't do this the microsoft way and get us stuck with your propriety programs, which, up to now, worked fine, but as soon as they develop a fault leave our apples app-less! thank you.
How am i to remedy the malady?

has anyone got a solution to this problem? i have
been unable to use my itunes for about a months now...
I was loading a podcast-the screen froze up-no scroll bar-I tried removing itunes and reinstalling same thing happens--my dock was not attached when I did this

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