ITunes very slow to resume playing a tune

While using iTunes latest version to the date (8.1.1), it takes about 6 (six) seconds to resume/start to play a tune. This happens even if while I'm playing the tune, I hit pause, and then hit play again (thus freezing for 6 seconds). My iTunes library has 20G.

Same problem here. I spend a week thinking iTunes was locked up, killing it, and insanely doing it over and over again.
Is there some process we can collectively get Apple to look at this? I have spoken to support 3 times, and visited the Geniuses at the store, and while they all seem to want to help, they continue to give me the same bad advice, over and over... reinstall itunes, restore your phone.
I suspect this problem will just magically go away in the next itunes release, but I'd really like someone just once to tell me, hey there was a problem, we know what it was and we fixed it. Here's the details...

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