Two iTunes Problems & Comments

I use iTunes to manage my podcasts and interface with my 30GB fifth generation iPod. I don't use it as my primary music manager or player, and if it weren't for the fact that its the only way to interface with my portable device, I wouldn't use it at all. That said, I have two problems with even my limited usage.
[My computer is a Gateway M450, with a 1.86 GHz Pentium M processor and a gig of RAM, running up to date Windows XP Pro. It is not bogged down with spyware or anything of the sort, as a person who has been working with computers for 10 years and works 20+ hours a week at my university's technical support center repairing student and faculty machines, I feel confident saying that.]
1) When I plug in my iPod for charging and syncing at the end of the day, I usually come back the next morning and find "iTunes has encountered an error and had to close." sitting in a dialog box. This has just started since the last update, I believe. I checked for a newer version of iTunes and it said I had the most recent version.
2) Whenever I browse podcasts, refresh podcasts, update podcasts, plug in my iPod, or a few other browsing activities, the iTunes.exe process uses ~100% of the CPU for 15-30 seconds, and sometimes even longer. I don't know what's causing this, but it seems rather excessive. Anyone know a cause or fix for this?
I've seen other posts with similar issues, but not much in the way of help or resolution. Hopefully I can get some answers for the required software for my nice shiny piece of hardware.
Windows XP Pro

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If you are willing to continue helping, here's what I found.
Just to clarify the two iTunes folders I am refering to are:
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I totally feel your pain. I too have a similar setup, a G4 running Tiger wherein I ripped my vinyl to a higher bitrate than my CD copies. I have in one of thses threads a script that was written for me that would rummage across the home network and pull down all the lower bitrate copies and move them, but I had a hard drive snafu, ran out of space and never got around to it..
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Yup.. If you use the View Options you can sort through the master list in iTunes by bitrate..
http://imageupper.com/i/?S0300010100011D1344782818223713
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http://imageupper.com/i/?S0500010010011A1344783379227569
http://imageupper.com/i/?S0500010010021A1344783379227569
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I've seen the responses on previous post (at least some of them) saying it is not necessary to combine two iTunes accounts. The solution is to authorize both accounts on all computers and you're fine. I disagree.
First, my wife and I have three iTunes accounts, because when she first signed up for MobleMe she was allowed to have a username that was not an email address. Then when iCloud came around, she was required to have a user name that was an email address. So she created a new one.
Here's the problem; we have bought media ( a lot of it) on three different accounts: her first one (non-email user name), her second one (email) and my account. We have purchased so much media that we cannot fit it all on any of the hard drives (lot os HD TV show, and movies). It is a pain in the rear to have to keep track of what movie is on what account when we want to login and download a prepurchased movie.
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Apple, will you help?
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I'm not sure if I am posting this in the right place or not but here goes nothing. My son received an Ipod for Christmas from stepmom. Stepmom set up her account in Itunes on the computer at their home. When son returned home, we set up a seperate account on home computer so that stepmom would not be charged for our purchases. When son went back to stepmom, they were not allowed to download movies from that computer because it told them they could not have two itune accounts. So stepmom is upset because movie purchases are unuseable. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem?

It is actually two seperate computers.
Yes, I understand that,
The problem is that she can't seem to get the movie downloaded from their computer to the ipod. The ipod won't recognize that itunes account.
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