ITunes using 90% of processor...is that normal?!

this is outrageous! I have been noticing that applications have been running slowly when I'm playing music in iTunes, so I opened Activity Monitor to see who the processor hog was. indeed, it was iTunes, using 90% of my processor to play a flipping song! I know my QS01 is aging quickly, but there is no reason a music application should take so much processor speed to run it! does anyone know why this is happening, or anything I can do to reduce the amount of processor it's using?
Zack

abnormal or not its comm0on around here. here is my "TOP"
ID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
14696 top 20.2% 0:02.62 1 18 22 612K+ 460K 2.38M+ 26.9M
14695 bash 0.0% 0:00.03 1 14 16 172K 908K 832K 27.1M
14694 login 0.0% 0:00.05 1 16 36 144K 476K 588K 26.9M
14692 Terminal 9.1% 0:03.52 6 133 230 3.04M+ 12.2M 21.4M+ 142M
14591 Mail 0.5% 0:46.21 9 207 355 15.3M 23.3M 49.5M 179M
14587 SyncServer 0.0% 0:00.97 2 37 61 2.21M 3.04M 3.78M 39.2M
14586 mdimport 0.0% 0:00.29 3 61 45 764K 2.10M 2.22M 38.8M
14581 iTunes 93.4% 2:51.78 11 279 2148 189M- 30.0M 220M- 358M-
14580 mdimport 0.2% 0:06.91 4 69 109 1.76M 3.23M 4.54M 69.8M
14180 TextEdit 0.0% 1:51.37 6 162 274 5.46M 15.1M 26.9M 148M
9475 flock-bin 1.1% 13:47.61 6 131 301 19.6M 30.1M 43.5M 171M
6658 Adobe Phot 4.2% 64:36.93 7 152 2104 178M 52.6M 226M 533M
6581 mysqld 0.0% 0:00.08 5 37 33 504K 1.82M 1.57M 38.4M
5911 Safari 0.8% 51:30.58 26 373 2445 179M 91.0M 165M 962M
5058 xoundsd 0.0% 0:00.42 3 197 159 2.30M 5.51M 9.76M 102M
5057 xoundsd 0.0% 0:00.42 3 197 159 2.27M 5.51M 9.70M 102M
it is my opinion that a music library over 80ggs causes this on my machine at least thats when it started crashing all the time etc. someone on this list had me change all song beats to 222, change the Font ID tag and some other stuff that finally stopped the crashing but it is a huge memory hog, along with safairi my lil g4 is always topped out. no need to photoshop just apple's two apps and i am tapped. its a bummer
l8er
~KM

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