Music stutters about 10-12 seconds into playing a new song.

I had to rebuild my OS, and after reinstalling iTunes and all my music (8746 mp3s - all legal!) I am having play-back problems.
After the song has stated (about 10-12 seconds into a song) the song stutters and pauses. I have tried changing the buffer size. That had no effect. I have gone into my QuickTime prefs and set the audio output to "Safe Mode" wave output only. That had no effect.
I notice I do not get the stutter as much when iTunes is not the front application.
Could this be because iTunes is storing some playback info to the file and waiting for Windows to update some file/folder info?
Or could this be because iTunes is contacting the Music Store about my song, and causing some delay?
Anyone else have this problem?

The usual cause of this particular problem is an anti-virus or anti-malware program scanning the *.tmp files that iTunes creates from time to time. iTunes isn't particularly great at holding onto its file handles, and so when an overzealous scanning program does its thing, iTunes has to wait and this causes it to use a lot of CPU stupidly.
This is both a problem with iTunes doing silly things and a problem with some scanning program being overzealous and scanning unnecessarily. The quick fix is to modify your scanning program to not scan the ...My Documents\My Music\iTunes directory. Look at your scanning programs and try to find a place where you can set exclusions and such.

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