Itunes 4.9 Crashing More And More

[robbbb]

Since reinstalling after a crash I have had terrible problems with iTunes 4.9. I have just under 5000 songs in my library. I am running 10.3.9. I have two 512 MB DDR SDRAM cards, the most which was available when I bought my flat-screen iMac G4. I have 52 GB unused on my hard drive. The program freezes whenever I try to import a song, burn a CD, or move large numbers of tracks around. It so far does not impact the rest of the system. I am always able to Force Quit.

Here are some of the relevant logs:

Aug 5 15:41:39 Rob-Middletons-Computer mDNSResponder[168]: mDNSResponder Waking at 155223697
Aug 5 15:41:39 Rob-Middletons-Computer mDNSResponder[168]: -1: DNSServiceRegister("iTunes_Ctrl_37E8D1B4CFBF4F47", "_dacp._tcp.", "local.", 3689) failed: Client id -1 invalid (-65549)
2005-08-05 15:41:50.384 Mail[1805] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
com.apple.mail.000d9351b22e.plist -- /Users/main/Library/Preferences/ByHost/
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
2005-08-05 15:41:50.390 Mail[1805] Unable to load LSMMap file at ~/Library/Mail/LSMMap2
2005-08-05 15:41:50.582 Mail[1805] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
com.apple.mail.000d9351b22e.plist -- /Users/main/Library/Preferences/ByHost/
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.

The above is from Console. Below is from Activity Monitor:

/ (/dev/disk0s3)
/dev/null
/dev/console
/dev/console
0x01f6b5f0 file struct, ty=0x3, op=0x317820
/System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Resources/MDS
0x01f6b098 file struct, ty=0x3, op=0x317820
/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunes.rsrc
/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localized.rsrc
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/HIToolbox.rsrc
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/Localized.rsrc
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/HIServices.rsrc
/System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/Versions/A/Resources/QuickTime.rsrc
/System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/Localized.rsrc
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/QD.framework/Versions/A/Resources/QD.rsrc
/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunes.rsrc
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Extras.rsrc
/Users/main/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library
*:daap

Please help, somebody.

 

[Satcomer]

First of all, open Disk Utility and Repair Permissions. Then mosey over to Your Hard drive->Users->Your User Name->Library->Preferences-> and throw out "com.apple.iTunes.plist". This may help.

 

[HateEternal]

First of all, open Disk Utility and Repair Permissions. Then mosey over to Your Hard drive->Users->Your User Name->Library->Preferences-> and throw out "com.apple.iTunes.plist". This may help.

There is a plist error, but its a mail plist??!?

 com.apple.mail.000d9351b22e.plist -- /Users/main/Library/Preferences/ByHost/
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
2005-08-05 15:41:50.390 Mail[1805] Unable to load LSMMap file at ~/Library/Mail/LSMMap2
2005-08-05 15:41:50.582 Mail[1805] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
com.apple.mail.000d9351b22e.plist -- /Users/main/Library/Preferences/ByHost/
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist

 

[robbbb]

Yes -- very strange, I thought. Mail was not even opened at the time, I don't think.

But, then again, I do not understand things like Console very much. If someone could talk me through it, perhaps I could diagnose the problem more clearly.