Last night Apple decided it was time to release iTunes 7.02 to solve some issues that people have been having as well as add support for the 2nd generation of the iPod Shuffle. The list of changes, in classic Apple fashion, does not go into significant detail and only says:
- About iTunes 7.0.2
With iTunes 7 and the new iTunes Store, preview and purchase high-quality hit movies plus new and classic games designed exclusively for the Fifth Generation iPod. Flip through your collection by album cover with Cover Flow, protect your iTunes library by backing up to CDs or DVDs, and much more. - What’s New in this Version
iTunes 7.0.2 adds support for the Second Generation iPod shuffle and addresses a variety of stability and performance issues found in iTunes 7 and 7.0.1.
I am in the process of upgrading right now on Windows Vista which isn’t officially supported but hopefully they have fixed some performance issues that I have been receiving. It seemed like iTunes 7 ran kinda slow on Vista but I guess it is lightning fast if I compare it to version 6 on Vista. *crossing my fingers* 
Itunes has really started to piss me off the last few days.
Everytime I close out of it a little box pops up that says “saving Itunes library” even when I made no changes at all!
The reason it bugs me is it takes up 100% cpu usage
and freezes my computer for about 10 seconds. grrness
I’m sure if you email the tech support they could easily pinpoint the problem, actually the response would probably go something like this:
“We appreciate you using iTunes but in order to properly troubleshoot the problem we’ll need you to reformat your computer and install only iTunes to see if that solves the issue. If the problem appears to be fixed just don’t install any other software and you should be okay. An alternative solution would be to purchase a Mac where we make sure our software is fully functional.”
Sorry, couldn’t resist.