Music skipping/scratchy and In-Game FPS Problems

To start off, I'm an avid gamer and like to listen to music while playing video games, I have two problems. First, When I use a communication program called Ventrilo, it lets you communicate through a microphone to other people, iTunes gets scratchy and skips and the other problem is when I play my favorite game Counter-Strike:Source, the FPS in the game go from 100 and drops to about 40 every couple seconds which makes gameplay very very choppy, I would really like to play while listening to music...
Please Answer if you Could, Thanks!

Ha! I have this problem too...with the skipping and scratchyness. It happens when i play StarCraft for crying out loud...that game is so undemandin of hardwar that I fail to see why it happens...does it with Knight Online too...again a program that lacks hardware demand.
iTunes 6 never did this...is there a way to fix this or if not revert to iTunes 6?

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Ok gang, here we go.
When playing purchased music or imported music, the music skips initially and then skips some without cpu load, or vigorously with cpu load (such as starting control panel, firefox, or any other program).
I've done the following (all as of 5/21/07):
- updated bios, and all windows updates
- updated directx
- updated sound drivers (conexant)
- updated quicktime
- changed to WaveOut and 16bit in Quicktime Prefs
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- deloused (adaware, windows defender, etc)
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There are 1.3GB of imported songs, 800MB of purchased music, and 2.8GB of podcasts.
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Hewlett-Packard Presario V5000 (ET828UA#ABA)
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LowerFilters: PxHelp20 (2.0.0.0),
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Current user is an administrator.
Video Display Information:
ATI MOBILITY RADEON Xpress 200 Series
ATI MOBILITY RADEON Xpress 200 Series
Connected Device Information:
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CDROM, HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4084N, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
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Drive is empty.
The last failed audio CD burn had error code 4220(0x0000107c). It happened on drive E: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4084N on CDR media at speed 24X.
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Thank you both for your input, I am really stumped here. I have been doing video on my Macs with since the early 90's when a 2gigabyte HD cost me over $2500 Australian and never had anything like this.
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