ITunes takes 90 seconds to load due to TCP Reconnects

iTunes takes about 90 seconds to load on my Windows 7 machine - a VERY fast machine with 6GB RAM and SSD drive where all other apps run very fast. Scanning the internet, I found many instances of extremely slow loading, but none of the suggestions were helpful. So, I used Process Monitor to see what the f*ck iTunes is doing...
It turns out that iTunes is hanging due to TCP Reconnects. It appears to be scanning TCP ports in the range of 61432 to 61503, trying each one twice, and each attempt takes 500 ms to time-out, causing a total of a 71 second hang during startup. As appears to be typical for this very poorly behaved software, all of this occurs before any UI has been drawn - not even a splash screen - making things all the more confusing for the poor user, who is left wondering why the heck the program doesn't appear to have launched.
I realize that this is probably not occurring for all users, meaning that there is something different about the installation/config on my particular machine that is triggering this problem. Still, that is no excuse for such ridiculous behavior, especially for such a widely used application.
Any help with this problem would be much appreciated. Although, I'm not really interested in the obligatory shotgun approaches of things like doing full uninstall/re-install of iTunes and/or Windows 7, etc. So, thank you for not asking me to do things that are likely to be a huge waste of my valuable time. If you want me to capture and post details about my machine, I'll do that - even though it's highly obvious that this is an ugly software problem in iTunes that needs to be fixed.

FYI, the TCP Reconnects are shown as MachineName:61xxx -> MachineName:5354, and the result of the API call is SUCCESS. I'm just assuming they're timing out since the API calls are 500 ms apart. I have no idea what this API is doing exactly, or why it seems to be scanning a range of ports but with each connection then apparently going to port 5354. Very strange. There are no other API calls in between the TCP Reconnect. Picture is attached:
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