Just played with iTunes 11 at the store and found it alright. On my decent sized music collection I found it to be a nightmare.
I followed this here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread…art=0&tstart=0
But this method worked for me specifically without a Time Machine backup to rely on those older framework files for:
1) In terminal: sudo rm -rf /Applications/iTunes.app (deletes iTunes 11)
„- download 10.7
– download pacifist (shareware but free trial version)
– doubleclick dmg
– drag the „install itunes“ to desktop
– start pacifist and drag „install itunes“ to it
– start installing
– press replace everytime youre asked if „duplicate, do nothing or erase““
Only hiccup was starting up iTunes, it said it was associated with a later version that created my library. I found the iTunes Library.itl file dated from last year in some random folder (can’t remember if I had backed it up or not, but a lifesaver it was), copy and pasted it into the newest created one by date in the Music/iTunes folder or whatever it is (found them in Spotlight) then deleted my whole collection without deleting the files since the paths are all screwed up and now re-scanning it from my external.
Good luck! I was very worried I wouldn’t be able to accomplish this but alas I did.
And I don’t think I’ll be updating soon on my machine.