Movie won't play after renaming in iTunes and on iPod if iTunes crashes

So new MacBook Pro, new 80 5G iPod. All up to date.
I can rename my movies files with about 80% success, 20% of the time I get the spinning beach ball of death. iTunes hangs and I force quite (probably a bad idea) now the files, either on the iPOD or in my library, are unplayable. If I try to open them in Quicktime (Pro) it says there was an "Error opening File, the Movie could not be played"
It looks to me like iTunes is corrupting the file when it tries to rename the file. Any one experience this as well or know how to fix the files? I've tried fixing permissions and repairing the disk in Disk Utility.
Thanks.... MacBook Pro 15" 10.4.9 - iTunes v7.1.1 - 3Gig Ram, 90 Gig free on HD....
MacBook Pro 15" Mac OS X (10.4.9) All up to date

So for anyone who happens upon this...
I've noted that the beach ball clears if I wait for 1 hour.
I've also noted that it is much faster to rename the movie files themselves in the finder, the next time I play the movie in iTunes the name changes.
I've noticed several other messages about the spinning beachball of death. In case anyone is wondering don't force quit iTunes least you corrupt the file.
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