ITunes Upgrade resulting in slow CD import

Last weekend I updated ITunes on my PC. After the update I am now experiencing painfully slow CD imports into ITunes.  A normal 15 track CD would take under 5 minutes in the previous ITunes version but now takes about 6 minutes per song.  The external driver firmware is up to date, I have the latest of everything Windows related on the laptop. Can I get an earlier version of ITunes - very frustrating.

No scrached disks (some of them brand new), and I tried about eight or nine and all were equally slow.
Regarding read speed: The internal DVD-drive (Pioneer 106D) on my four-year old Dual G5 has a read speed of 32X for audio disks, but are those 8X enough to explain the more than 50% better rip speed?
The G5's got faster disks, though, so maybe that is an issue?

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