Media Center MP3 file # limit?

Howdy,
I’ve been using Media Center II Deluxe with the patch for a few weeks now and have had very few issues until I tried to get my music library up and running with it. My music is stored out on my server, as in myservermusic and I have just over 8000 titles in the music library. When I try and go to the music section of Media Center II it takes about 20 minutes of sitting there as if it’s trying to access the library and eventually Media Center closes. I’ve been able to have it find music on a server when the server only contained about 15 albums, and even at that low amount of music it took about two minutes to display them in the library when using Media Center II, but 8000 titles seem to crash the program.
Is this a known limitation? Are there any work-arounds? Any tips?
Thanks,
Hoverboy

I never did get an answer for this one, and I tried to copy some of the music locally and hit the same issue after a thousand or so.
What I ended up doing was using this:
http://www.myhtpc.net
It is tied into WMP9 (or whatever mp3 player you use) and has been a dream.

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