Can anyone help me  bring it back to life?

OK -- My problems (like many others on this forum) started with upgrading to iTunes 7. Here's the as-quick-as-I-can-make-it story line:
- Please note that I am using a new iMac, NOT windows.
1 - iPod (3G 30GB) wouldn't update, made iTunes 7 freeze up every time it was attached. Tried to restore. My entire system froze during the restore, and I was forced to power off the computer. (I know... BAD move, but I had no choice.)
2 - iPod frozen with apple logo on screen, not recognized by iTunes or the computer at all. Can hear hard drive spinning. Will restart but not power off.
3 - Restart iPod in disk mode and attach to computer. When attaching, computer tells me I have a bad disk and will open the Disk Repair utility. The iPod is listed there as a "27.9 GB Apple Computer" disk, but none of the utilities (first aid, erase, etc.) will actually work. Some options grayed out, some just don't work when I try them.
4 - Turn on iTunes (upgraded to 7.0.1) while iPod attached in disk mode. It tells me "iTunes has detected an iPod that appears to be corrupted. You may need to restore this iPod..." When I click the restore button, the progress bar appears. Got about half way in 10 minutes or so, then froze there for hours. Finally shut it down.
4 - Tried to restore iPod using iPod updater from 2006-06-28. Get progress bar for a while, then a message simply stating that iPod update failed.
Does anyone have any ideas that I could try? I'm willing to try anything at this point.... Please help if you can!
Thanks!

An update...
I downloaded Apple's (rather large!) list of software updates today, and I was finally able to recognize my iPod again. I did a restore using the iPod updater from 06-2006, and all seemed to work OK. (I'm afraid to try the new one again!)
Then I tried to re-load my music library from iTunes, and got stuck. It froze up after a while and wouldn't go any further.
When I disconnected my iPod from my computer, I find 2 podcasts and nothing else, though iTunes told me it had transferred 600+ songs. Those 2 podcasts do play fine, and the basic iPod software all seems to be intact.
So -- anyone get through this connection problem and have any ideas to share??
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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