Something is going on with my Itunes...[the rainbow wheel problem]Help me?

Something is going on with my Itunes...I open up my itunes and the loading icon [the rainbow wheel] starts up. Everything freezes except the mouse i cant restart it, close it, nothin. im forced to press the power button to restart it. ive tryed it with nothing but the itunes only processing and it dosent seem to help. ive been with this problem for the last two weeks, and ive seen that everything on my macbook works fine as long as i dont open up my itunes but i really want it to work again. i dont know if its crashing or if its in a hang, but im hopin someone can help me on this, or wondering if i should take it to the nearst Apple store to get it checked at the genius bar. Help me?

Hello errow,
Your display problem looks very familiar to mine. You can see some pictures here on this topic: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2741232&tstart=15
Best regards,
Frans.

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