Really weird psudo-freezing with iTunes

ANY song I play freezes for about 3 seconds at 12-14 seconds into the song, and then plays through the rest of the song fine, and when the next song comes up, 12-14 secs into it, it freezes again for about 2-3 secs, and over and over EVERY song. even if I jump to the middle of a song, about 12-14 secs later, a pause, but it's actually a freeze, cause if it's in the background and I'm working with any other program, it freezes that program, too. It's REALLY annoying and it would be a shame to not be able to use such a fine player. BTW, this has now followed me on two different motherboards, two different hard drives, and two different OS installations. ANY IDEAS?
AMD Athalon 1.3Ghz, 512 RAM Windows XP Pro

Try contacting Avast to see of they have any work-arounds. I obtained some different DLL-Hooks from one company that were 'less aggressive' when I had a freeze issue. While it did not completely solve the issue, they were trying hard to figure it out.
You may want to see if you can direct Avast to ignore the iTunes programs that run. Some virus/spyware scanners let you designate 'safe' programs to exclude in the periodic memory scan. Ask Avast about this as well.
See if there is an Avast 'tech site' or 'chat forum'. You may find many good user tips there. McAfee had one when I was using that package, but most of us were slinging some sharp sticks and heavy rocks at the company at that time.
If Avast does not want to help, consider dumping them and moving to another program. I use TrendMicro's PC-cillin, a highly rated program. Also Zone Alarm is well respected, but I do not know how well it plays with other software programs.
Lots of options. At least you got the music running again.
Best of Luck

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