3g Nano causes itunes/My Computer to freeze...

My nano is 2 weeks old and works fine by itself. The nano connects and charges fine. As soon as it does, though, itunes and my computer freezes and become unusable. It doesn't show up in itunes and sometimes will show up in my computer as a portable device. I've gone through the 5 R's, reinstalled itunes twice , tried disk mode, different USB...nothing works.
Any possible ideas?

I just wanted to add that I can use itunes all by itself to manage/listen to my music. My nano also works flawlessly. I keep reading that itunes 7.6 is causing a lot of problems. If anyone from Apple acutally reads these hopefully a newer version is on its way to fix the bugs.

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i had a similar problem recently. what happened to me was that itunes was doing some kinda "reeding" of music files of some sort [i honestly dont remember the exact name of the action], but whenever it got to a certain song, it would do the same thing you are describing which is crash the computer or freeze it up. i decided to actually FIND the file that was causing the problem and when i got rig of the file and started itunes [this after having to turn itunes on and watch my computer freeze up again to acquire the song name] it worked perfectly.
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Hi,
finally worked! I found this post and it has finally worked I understand it is the same as WHATHECK's answer so thanks WHATHECK!
You have to be certain that you have backed up your Library's and Playlists and that you are doing the one in the root (if like me you use a HD any old library/playlists instead of deleting them put them some were safe just incase and make sure you are re-creating the library from your root folder i.e user/music/itunes
Anyone trying thishttps://discussions.apple.com/message/15093132#15093132
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Selecting media to sync to iPod Nano causes iTunes to become sluggish and freeze.

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Hello Jeremy Sample,
Thanks for the question. The following article may be relevant to your issue:
iTunes: May become unresponsive when connecting iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3219
If you are on a Windows computer, you can also check out this article:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1717
Thanks,
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i had a similar problem recently. what happened to me was that itunes was doing some kinda "reeding" of music files of some sort [i honestly dont remember the exact name of the action], but whenever it got to a certain song, it would do the same thing you are describing which is crash the computer or freeze it up. i decided to actually FIND the file that was causing the problem and when i got rig of the file and started itunes [this after having to turn itunes on and watch my computer freeze up again to acquire the song name] it worked perfectly.
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My iTunes (10.6) and my computer (running on Windows XP SP3) (near) freezes when I'm trying to synchronize my iPod Nano (6G). iTunes consumes 99% of my computer processor. And the iTunes screen stalls with the text "Synchronize starts". My iPod seems to react in the beginning, it shortly shows "synchronizing", but stops after a few seconds en says "connected" after.
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Hello Teddy1602,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
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