Rantaholics

Alright, I am pissed. So, I upgrade to the new version of iTunes and I am having issues with it. It is importing cds incredibly slow and when it's playing music, it's like it's "buffering." It skips, sounds distorted, and slows down. So, I go to apple.com to their discussion boards and find a thread w/over 28,000 views and almost 400 responses of people have the exact same problem (with other additional problems) that I am having w/iTunes 7. I skim through them and someone has posted a way to go back to the older version. I followed the directions and w/help from FJ, got it working. Problem is, it's doing the exact same thing! I used to be able to run the older version w/NO PROBLEM. What I don't understand is why, when I uninstalled the lastest version, I am still have issues. Everything was fine until that damn version 7. Has no one heard of, "if it isn't broke, don't fix it?" I mean, come on...yeah, okay, version 7 has "new features" and blah blah blah, but I don't even use half the damn features of the older version and now I can barely play music. Isn't that the point of iTunes? To be able to play and listen to music and now that is fucked up. I hate technology. Companies are so damn eager to get their "new fangled idea" out there, that they don't thoroughly test things. I know that 400 people is probably not the majority of iTunes users, but that is still a good chunk of people have the same problem w/the same stupid program, since it's stupid new release. If anyone has any ideas on how to correct this issue, please let me know. I NEED my music.

**UPDATE**

Now, my audio problems don't seem to be an iTunes issue...I can't listen to anything in Winamp, Windows Media Player, or streaming on the web w/o the distortion and skipping of the music. Also, when I reboot my computer, the music that Windows plays when it shuts down or is being loaded is also distorted. To me, this sounds like a computer problem...but I don't know. Now I'm wondering if there is some random file somewhere that's causing this or what. Please, someone help.