OK about as far as I can go with getting iTunes to work

I have about 60k songs, 9k TV episodes and 2k movies.
All the video is in native H.264 format.
I have been struggling to get iTunes to run without constant lockups, timeouts and stalls for up to 20 minutes all of which can be caused by selecting an item and selecting info or changing the Playlist to Random.
I have moved every machine to Mac
I have replaced every wireless device to Apple
I have removed all non Apple products off the network.
I have upgraded my main Mac to an i7 3,4GHz iMac, upgraded the memory to 8GB
I have moved all the media from USB DAS boxes to Firewire800 DROBOs
I have moved the 300GB Music collection to the boot HDD.
And still it stalls, splutters, locks up and dies.
Most annoying and really embarrassing .......
I have rebuilt the iMac, I have rebuilt the library
I have nothing else running, iStat reports no network, HDD, or CPU activity and a big bunch of spare memory
The only conclusion left is.....
iTunes cannot handle it and to break the library up.
So my next question is it better to run all the different iTunes libraries in different logins or should I look at running multiple VMs when Lion comes out and allows me to do it?
Ideas, thoughts, observations all welcome, although comments like 'mine works fine' without definition are of little value....

Well Lion seems to have fixed most of the perfromance issues with iTunes!!!
First evidence is a massive performance improvment.
Right click/Info used to take 20 seconds to get a result now instantaneous
Right click/Delete used to take 1-2 minutes now instantaneous
ATV2 would 8 times out 10 hang when trying to get TV Shows from iTunes, now takes 20 seconds, doesn't hang and allows very rapid journeys into and out of Show Seasons where it would normally stall then hang.
Not conclusive but very good indicators none the less.... :-)

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