Music is skipping in iTunes 7.0.1.8

Ever since I upgraded from iTunes 7.0something-or-other to 7.0.1.8, I've heard an intense amount of skips in music playback.
I've tried reinstalling my sound card drivers with no luck, iTunes doesn't seem to be eating up any more CPU or memory than it usually does, and I've tried closing all other applications.
Is this a known issue with a resolution? Can't seem to find any answers anywhere. Needless to say, I'm quite frustrated
Windows XP Pro 1.60ghz AMD sempron, 1gb ram

I don't know if this will help you, but I was having the same problem in the earlier version of iTunes 7.0. The advice was to turn down my sound card hardware acceleration. This actually did work.
The latest "patch/upgrade" allowed me to turn my sound card acceleration back up with no problems, but you may have a different sound card that is just now impacted. To try this "fix"--go to your control panel click on sounds and audio devices. Then find the Audio tab and click on it. Next select sound playback. Then click on the advanced tab. Finally under hardware acceleration, move the slider from full down two notches to basic.
See if this solves the choppy sound problem. When you download the next iTunes version or patch try resetting your sound hardware acceleration to full and see if it's okay (finally).

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