Spinning pinwheel in itunes after importing

Hello all!
I am using a 15inch Powerbook G4(1.67ghz, 2GB ram) and itunes v.10.6.3(25) to store and play all my music. That is basically all the Powerbook is used for. I recently erased and reloaded my library( roughly 1.2TB) and since then, I get the spinning pinwheel whenever I try to do pretty much anything in itunes. All other applications run fine, it seems to be isolated to itunes.
I have my music stored on a 3TB LaCie external drive.
I have repaired permissions, and that did not fix the problem.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

For one of the problem files, right-click it and choose Open With > iTunes.
If the file is compatible, it will start playing and be added to the library.
If iTunes "errors silently" (i.e. does nothing) it means the file is incompatible.  If you are sure it is a valid MP3, treat it with a 3rd party tag cleanup program such as Mp3Val.  That usually suffices to make iTunes happy.

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