Freezes when Ipod is connected???

I purchased a 60gb Ipod last night because my old Mp3 player kicked the bucket. Well, I installed Itunes and everything went fairly smoothly. Itunes runs whenever I open it and it finds all my files just fine but whenever I connect my ipod to the computer everything freezes up, I tunes doesn't respond and every other program runs very slowly or not at all. I've tried basicaly everything I can think of to conquer this issue and I haven't had any luck. I even went to the lengths of defragmenting my hard drives and running a comprehensive virus search... to no avail. Am I the only one to have had this problem? I run Itunes on WinXP on a Compaq Presario 6000. This also happened last summer sometime when I was going to put some music on a friend's Ipod, it would just freeze it.
I have about 50GB of music that I'm ready to upload but this is completely hindering me from doing so. I've started to make back-up discs of my music so I could do it on another computer but I'd really like to know how to fix this problem and be able to use my Ipod in my own house.
So if anyone could help, I would greatly appreciate it. I'd love to start using my Ipod =)
Thanks!
compaq presario 6000 Windows XP ...

I've seen this same issue with my 60gb since I upgraded from a previous 40GB (the 40GB would update quickly via firewire, never had an issue with it locking up itunes or winxp)
Since geting the 60GB, most if not all updates to the ipod are painfully slow and the computer is mostly useless. At best, it takes 20-45 minutes for itunes to update my pod... At worst, it seems to go completely out to lunch.
I have ~8000 songs, 62 vids (1.46GB), 67 podcasts (1.67GB), no files, a few dozen photos.
My drives are defraged regularly, I run current AV sw, I have 2 firewalls, I run spysweeper (& others) on a fairly regular basis, I've tried the onboard usb ports, a generic usb 2 card, a belkin usb2 card... no real improvement.
Looking forward to someone figuring this out, as it's rather irritating...
<< for the following: standard disclaimers apply, I take no responsibility if this has negative impact with your particular system :) >> (though I highly doubt it could)
Something that may help you (it's worked for me on those occasions when itunes seems to be out to lunch... Click the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the tray, click on the usb device in the list that represents your ipod (when you click stop with the item selected, it presents you with the actual device that is connected (e.g. Apple/Ipod) Selet the ipod and click "Stop". Windows won't actually stop the device, it will inform you that it's in use. After I do this, itunes generally sems to wake up and start updating the pod again.
HTH/YMMV
Rich
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