Major iTunes problems - freezing, crashing

I'm having major problems with iTunes (OS 10.7.3). I was running iTunes 10.6 and I downgraded to 9.2.1 to see if that helped but it didn't; problems in both versions. Essentially, iTunes hangs or freezes with a spinning beach ball quite often, during the following operations:
- determining gapless playback
- converting to mp3
- syncing to my iPod (it will often say a file is damaged and can't be transferred; this includes songs I've downloaded from the iTunes store)
- sometimes for no apparent reason, i.e., in the midst of playing a song when I'm not even using my computer for anything else
Occasionally, the freeze is so bad it locks up my entire MacBook Pro and I can't even use force quit—I have to hard restart my computer to get it to respond again. This happens every time I try to convert a song to mp3, for example.
I've tried a lot of things, none of which have seemed to resolve the problem. Things I've done:
- trashing my entire iTunes library and rebuilding from scratch by re-adding all the songs and re-syncing to my iPod
- downgrading to 9.2.1
- starting both versions of iTunes in safe mode (problems still happen); I believe I've gotten rid of any 3rd party extensions but happy for suggestions to the contrary if some are hard to find
- deleting songs that iTunes seems to have a particularly hard time with (though I'd like to be able to listen to these some day, of course!)
- constant checking for software updates in hopes of a fix...
Anyone had a similar problem and managed to solve it successfully? I like to listen to music a lot so having iTunes out of commission and being unable to sync anything new to my iPod without major fights is making me a little crazy. Thank you!

Alright, so on my laptop I got my library to work on the D drive, but guess what. My 40GB iPod won't be recognized by the computer or iTunes but i don't really care about that iPod. My 60GB iPod is recognized somewhat but iTunes says something like "the iPod cannot be read... blah blah blah... you should restore your iPod." I am to the point of refusing to restore my iPod because I did that a few weeks ago for my desktop computer and I had to wait a full 36 hours for another non-Apple program to recover the data on my iPod because iTunes wouldn't sink it. No wonder I don't want to restore my iPod. Please someone help me!

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