Why is iTunes freezing (dreaded beach ball!) whenever I've played internet radio for a while, say 20mins or longer?

So, after a period of playing internet radio (various stations), the station stops and I find then that iTunes has frozen with the beach ball spinning.
I'm hoping that someone in the community can provide some advice.
Here's the start of the latest force quit report I've sent to apple:
Date/Time:       2012-10-13 10:49:57 +1100
OS Version:      10.8.2 (Build 12C54)
Architecture:    x86_64
Report Version: 11
Command:         iTunes
Path:            /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
Version:         10.7 (10.7)
Build Version:   1
Project Name:    iTunes
Source Version: 10702101
Parent:          launchd [175]
PID:             9612
Event:           hang
Duration:        1.76s
Steps:           18 (100ms sampling interval)
Hardware model: Macmini4,1
Active cpus:     2
Free pages:      12481 pages (+140)
Pageins:         0 pages
Pageouts:        0 pages
Process:         iTunes [9612]
Path:            /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
Architecture:    x86_64
Parent:          launchd [175]
UID:             501
Task size:       51994 pages

Hard to say. It sounds like things are pretty scrambled. What happens is the free space that is left is fragmented into thousands of different places on the drive. So any disc writing activity takes super long and locks things up.
I would recommend posting on the MBP thread http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1149&start=0 This is more of a system rescue problem than an itunes issue.
Good luck, Matt.

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