Replying to New iTunes release is effin' my comp up!

What the hell! I update to the 'Final 7.0 version' and now everytime i start the program it freezes. is anyone else having these types of problems?

first it would freeze when it would try 'determining gapless...' so i disabled that.

now when i try to play a song it plays it 10-30 seconds after i click it. the program becomes unresponzive yet it plays the song. wtf is going on!

my music is on an external HD. my laptop is new and nice and i don't have a ton of programs running. i am going to kill someone!