Itunes will not force quit and freezes often

I recently moved my itunes folder to an external hard drive. since then it has a had lots of troubles. I resolved some of the issues that were related to itunes 8 (deleted the genius.itdb file to avoid error 13026). However itunes is still regularly freezing when i play songs or add songs to the library. when i attempt to force quit itunes, it will disappear from the force quit menu but the dock still shows it as running, when I reopen the force quit menu it is still listed. i have to restart my computer to get it to quit so i can attempt to reopen it. is this a problem with the hard drive? or do i need to do something else?

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Russell Pond wrote:
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