Has anyone had this problem?

I was driving home yesteday, I went to turn up the volume (Megadeth if your wondering, ) Moved the volume knob, and almost 3 seconds later the player responded. I used the Hijack menu, checked the Vital Stats, and saw Unix load averages in the 7's straight accross the line.

I have never seen a unix load average this high on any unix machine that I've messed around with.. Any idea on what would cause this?

The file I was playing was a .wma 192k song file, I had the player set to Info Track, I don't remember what visual it was set to.

The player is a MK2a 30 g, Beta-13 with Hijack v291

-Dist