Music Files on NAS drive

I recently moved all my music to a NAS drive which I access wirelessly from iTunes on my laptop.
My iTunes Folder location is still on my laptop, so the xml/itl files there simply refer to my NAS drive (via a network share, G:\) for all it's song paths. I have "Keep iTunes Music Folder organised" and "Copy files to iTunes Music Folder ..." both turned OFF.
This setup works fine, except that I have serious performance issues when adding new songs (that I put on the NAS) to the iTunes library. It takes about a minute PER SONG! Setting this up first time took all night, but it's still unacceptably slow to add new albums.
Now here's the odd thing: if I add songs from my local C: drive it STILL takes ages, and seems to be accessing the NAS quite alot, but why? If I add songs from my C: drive with the NAS turned off, it's much faster. So what is it doing accessing all the OTHER song files when I add to the library?
Incidentally, I also had to downgrade from iTunes 7 to 6 since the gapless determination loop took several hours to run when involving songs on my NAS drive.
What can I do to alleviate my problems ? Any guidance gratefully received.

I have a network storage device too and I've used it for a long time. I have the iTunes library files (the XML and ITL) on the PC with the library on the NAS device. I have two issues, one of which is a huge pain...
1. I would like to place the XML/ITL files on the NAS drive too, but I see no option for doing that. If I want to use the iTunes library on my other PC then I first have to copy the XML/ITL files to that PC, and then copy them back again at the end. That is annoying to have to do.
2. Recently my iPod Video 60Gb caught fire and burned out. I replaced it with an iPod Video 80Gb and also upgraded iTunes to v7. Now, although the 80Gb machine only has exactly the same content that the 60Gb one had, with 57Gb spare, it now takes 48 hours to sync whereas before it took around 20 mins. I'm guessing that this is a factor down to iTunes v7 and am thinking of re-installing iTunes v6. However, I noticed when I installed v7 that it said it was converting my library - does this mean that v6 would no longer work with my existing library?
Kind Regards
Steve

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I did use Norton, but only AFTER I discovered the files were gone ...
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