MacBooKPro, I can switch the power on and off, but booting takes for ever

I am a new Mac user and have had this machine for a couple of months and in the learning stage. Yesterday I had downloaded some mp3 songs and were trying to play them with itunes, individually they would open but i couldnt import them to the music library. I noticed the machine slowly and by this morning, it has crawled to a stop. I can switch it on and off, but when i switch it on, it takes a long while for the apple logo to come on and then it takes ages for the screen to appear and when i click on something it takes many more minutes for it to open. So in fact I am frozen out, since i cannot open anything...but the machine can be powered on and off.
do you think that there is a relationship between this freezing and the mp3 downloading and trying to play it with itunes?
what might this be? Can any one help me with some advice. The apple support is closed for the night so i cant even call them. Thank you so very much...

Hiya Ibncochini,
welcome to Apple discusions, if you can power your book on, can you open "Activity monitor"? (found in applications/utlities).
What may have happened, is that itunes is still trying to import the files. Now, also, whilst the threat of viruses is not as bad as on Windows PC's, I always scan my "new arrivals" (i.e. all files, even music files purchased from the apple store) with clamxav , which is a basic, but free;
But for the moment, I would not suspect anything harmful, other than that an application is trying to run something. (your logs should reveal, found in console )
Hopefully, your activity monitor reveals the offending application that e.g. takes all the processor power and you can click on it and "force quit" (from the Activity monitor menu).
It might also be a good idea to look at +verbose mode+ which will tell you what is happening during the booting up.
Any of the above any good?

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