Mail app very slow auto completing recipient field

after typing in a few characters in any recipient field in mail I get the spinning beach ball for up to 20 seconds while mail tries to automatically complete the address, is there anyway to reduce the lag time without turning this feature off.I have cleared the "previous recipients" window. LDAP is also configured (doesn't seem to make any difference). Making mail unusable at the moment....help greatly appreciated

Please confirm that in your Home folder's Library, you find the folder Application Support, and in that folder, you find the AddressBook folder. Open the AddressBook folder and report the files and folders within. (~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook)
Also, again in the Finder, check ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.addressbook.plist for dates created and last modified. I am thinking this one may need to be removed, and AB allowed to create another, but not yet suggesting that.
Ernie

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Both the old and new machines run Windows7 Home Premium 64-bit.
While playing and syncing work well, I am unable to edit any auto-complete enabled field in a track's (or track group's) properties (e.g. artist, album) without having the iTunes application crash immediately.
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Best regards,
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Greetings,
I have my music collection on a NAS drive, and have recently upgraded my laptop and so moved the iTunes library files to the new machine.
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