Music Distortion Problems

With the recent upgrade to iTunes 7, I am experiencing many problems with my iTunes music becoming distorted or skipping playback (not skipping a song, but parts of a song). It generally only occurs if another sound occurs on my computer (for example, someone loggin in on MSN, recieving an IM, or getting new email).
I would assume it has something to do with how iTunes and the sound hardware interact. I've disabled most of the iTunes enhancement features (such as the sound enhancer) but the problem still persists.
Anyone else having this problem or any ideas how to fix it?

this maybe due to your sound card driver you could try updating it
music distortion/skipping normally happens when your cpu is running at 100% so check your windows task manager (by pressing cntl alt del and selecting task manager)
as a temp fix you can do the following to stop your songs from skipping when someone signs into messenger
in messenger goto tools - options
click alerts and sounds from the left hand menu
under windows live messenger events (it may be slightly different if you are running an old version of messenger that isnt windows live messenger e.g msn messenger 6)
untick all the boxes to the each sound
now no sound will play when a contact signs in

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Since installing the latest version of itunes on my windows pc the music distorts whenever i am browsing the web and click on links. Its never done this before. Any ideas please?
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Willeeeee,
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MB67
exectly,
every song now has a click click click click sound at the start and during the song and a small hissing sound during the song. Very strange and weird.
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