iTunes beachballs my system

[dopamineu140]

Anyone know what I should do.

It starts up fine but if I do anything to it, it beachballs itself then if I do something else outside iTunes, my whole system beachballs.

I've already tried repairing permissions.

[jsaure]

what a beach. maybe you should add more ram.

[dopamineu140]

I knew I was forgetting something, my system.

Al 15" PB
OSX.3.8
1.25Ghz
512MB ram

I don't think it's a ram issue. iTunes was working fine up until 2 days ago when everything just slowed down and then hanged for no reason. All my restart attempts were all plagued with the same problem. I finally managed to start up normally by disconnecting my iPod so that iTunes wouldn't open on start up.

Clarification:
iTunes opens without any problem but if I do anything to it, it beachballs itself then if I do something else outside iTunes, my whole system beachballs. (The wording in the earlier post sounded a bit confusing to me.)

[mikaelrules]

Have you tried trashing the iTunes preference files in the Home/Library/Prefrerences folder?

[Edited on 2-25-2005 by mikaelrules]