Management of my large Itunes collection very very very slow!

I have digitised my complete collection of CDs, some 50.000 songs.
This represents some 300 Gb of music managed from my IMAC G5, 2 GHz, 2 Gb RAM.
But in practise, Itunes is barely usable, any action like renaming a song or correcting the name of an artist requires many tens of seconds, or even minutes during which all I get is the spinning wheel.
Quitting other programmes barely improves the speed of ITunes.
Do you have a recommendation to improve the usability of ITunes (except deleting my songs!)?
Is it possible to allocate a large fraction of the RAM to improve ITunes?
Powerbook G4 1GHz, IMAC G5 2GHz, 2 Gb RAM   Mac OS X (10.4.10)  

I'm glad you "fixed" your problem. But, dare I say, you will see that in the long run, shuffle is, how to say this....sucky?
I have my iPod on shuffle A LOT. Day in, day out....for the past six months...same songs, time after time....after time, after time. Yet, hundreds that I haven't come close to hearing....the shuffle option is very poor.
'Course, that is MY opInIon!

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