Jerky playback of movie trailers within iTunes

When I try to view movie trailers within iTunes itself, the playback is jerky. It pauses and stops before resuming.
This is repeatable on two computers (Mac Pro and a Mac Mini), both running the latest version of iTunes and OS X Snow Leopard. I have a DSL connection
Yet, if I use a web browser (Safari) to go to trailers.apple.com/trailers/ , the playback is fine. Which makes me think that there is some setting within iTunes. But I cannot find any setting to change.
Any ideas?
As soon as I post this message, I'm going to boot up in OS X Lion and see the results.

When I boot into OS X Lion, the playback is fine. I reboot into OS X Snow Leopard, no change (that is, the jerky playback continues).

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