How I fixed the Spinning Beach Ball Issue

Ok, like many of you, I was also getting iTunes to hang when plugging in my shuffle, and it would just sit with the spinning beach ball. Even after an hour, it was still frozen. Well, I just fixed mine.
I went to check the Library File to see if it was too large or something, and I found my Music folder wouldn't open, and when it did it showed 0 items, yet iTunes was still playing songs. So I ran TechTool Deluxe on it (it came with your APP if you bought one). Anyway, it found Volume errors on the music drive. So I backed up the music folder to another drive, and let TechTool repair the errors. When it was done, I ran it again, no errors. I then opened iTunes, plugged in my shuffle, and it instantly grabbed new songs via Autofill and sync'd. So, I think the iTunes installer is causing errors to the volume, which is causing the hang ups. TechTool was able to fix the errors, and now iTunes runs fine. Hopefully that will help a few of you get yours working again.
For the record, I store my music on my secondary internal drive, and keep the library in my user folder on the boot drive. After running the fix, everything appears to be just fine, and from what I can tell I lost no data.

I hope your Tech Tool Deluxe disk was not version 3.0.3 or earlier. If you used a version of Tech Tool that was incompatible with Tiger, you may have corrupted your harddrive.
Mac OS X 10.4: Don't use Tech Tool Deluxe 3.0.3's Volume Structure repair
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301353
Only use Mac OS X 10.4-compatible disk utilities with Mac OS X 10.4 volumes
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301269

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