Stupid slow lag with iTunes 11 on Windows7

Before I mention anything else:
- Running on Windows 7 64-bit with a 1.3GHz processor. My baby's getting old, but my only problems besides iTunes 11 in the past year was some lag playing Skyrim.
- My iTunes library is tiny. We're talking less than 25GB of data altogether, just under 14.5BG of that music.
- My RAM is 4GB: enough to watch a 1080p Blue-Ray rip no problem
- All my Win7 updates are done and good (to my chagrin, cause they take so much space most times)
- My last defrag was last week
- the last time I ran CCleaner on all my drives was last week. I ran it a few times, cause I was also doing some spring cleaning in my file folders.
- C: drive has more than 20GB of free space, iTunes media's on D: (more than 150GB free) but it's been like that since before iTunes v.7
Granted all of this, if I intend to use iTunes to play anything, I can't use any other programs, or attempt to do anything on iTunes while it's playing music. If I shut down all other programs and iTunes is the only thing running, I still get lag clicking a song title on the list.
The display I've got going is just list view, plain and simple. Genius is off, no automatic synching (I don't get wi-fi through the cement wall anyway on my iPod). Playback is nothing fancy.
God forbid I should try to minimize the window, scroll down a playlist, open a program and use it (Notepad for goodness' sake!! Chrome okay, even with just one tab, Word, fine. But Notepad??). Wanna browse the iTunes store? Out of the question. Insta-crash, especially if you're in another country's store. And exit iTunes? HA. Why would you want to do that. Who wants to do that. I have to end the process in my task manager 4 times over as many minutes before it'll quit.
Anyone else seeing this BS, or am I alone in a corner over here? Anyone found a way to fix the lag, freezing, and skipping playback besides reverting to an older version? I'd really like to avoid re-writing my entire library all over again after I just did it.

I forgot to mention 64 bit Windows 7.

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