ITunes takes two Quits to actually quit

This is a kind of annoying new trait since upgrading to Leopard. I can choose Quit from either the menu or the Dock and iTunes just ignores me the first time. If I do it twice, it instantly quits. This isn't some time out value I'm just not being patient for since i've let it wait as long as 5 minutes. It just simply ignores the first Quit command.
Is anyone else seeing this behavior?

just chiming in to report similar activity on my new macbook pro 2.4, itunes 7.6.1.
i have been using my powerbook 12" for years with itunes and never had this problem. now i get a brand new shiny macbook pro and itunes has slowed down to a crawl.
my library is only 3050 songs (compared to 12040 songs on my powermac g4/733, which runs itunes on tiger fine, btw).
itunes takes approx 1 minute to start and then as soon as i quit, i get the beachball. there is no option to click quit again, just have to wait several (2-3) minutes for it to terminate the process. of course i can force quit, but then none of my changes will be saved to the library.
waiting for a fix. thanks for reading,
hamdog

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