Cannot properly eject iPod

Whenever I connect my iPod to update it with new songs it appears that evertying works fine while the iPod is updating. Once the iPod is done updating I see the message in iTunes reading, "iPod finished updating" or something like that, except now the "Do Not Disconnect" warning stays on my iPod even after it is done updating. When I go to eject it through iTunes I get a message reading something like, "Cannot eject iPod because it contains files in use by another program." I did not have this problem before iTunes 7 came out. For the record, I'm disappointed with iTunes 7 because one thing that really bugs me about it is that scrolling through my library is so much slower now. Before iTunes 7 I could scroll up and down the hundreds of songs in my library fast, but now it scrolls slow.

Could it be the gapless function checking your downloaded tracks? I had the same thing - all tracks downloaded, but "warning message stays on ipod. Then I clicked the left arrow (were the message says your ipod is updated & is complete) And found another message saying "it was analyzing the tracks" - so it wasn't finished.Go 7 ??

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