I am updating my 3GS and after 3 hours my itunes says "syncing artwork (Step 5 of 4)" It has been on that for 2 hours now. No that is not a typo. it really says step 5 of 4. what do I do?

I am updating my 3GS and after 3 hours my itunes says "syncing artwork (Step 5 of 4)" No that is not a type it says step 5 of 4. It has been on that message for 2 of the 3 hours. What do I do?

If the update gets interrupted, it will resume where it stopped. Shouldn't take near that long.
 Cheers, Tom

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