IPhone 3G crashes iTunes when plugged in

Whenever I plug in my iPhone 3g into my computer iTunes starts to automatically sync and eventually stops responding. I've turned off the automatic sync in iTunes preferences, tried trashing iTunes and iTunes helper preferences to no avail. I have triple checked my settings to manually manage music and video and disabling auto sync. I've tried deleting apps, doing a hard reset, restarting both the computer and the phone and it's still hanging. If I unplug the phone while iTunes is crashing iTunes recovers and functions normally, if I force quit iTunes won't actually quit until I unplug the phone. I've tried restoring my phone but I can't since every time I plug in the phone iTunes crashes! Help please, I'm at my wits end!

Were you able to get your iPhone to sync without crashing iTunes?
I've tried multiple times and have restarted the iPhone, re-installed iTunes and still no luck. iTunes crashes and crashes every time I try to sync or update the iPhone to 2.2.1.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Message was edited by: keven-77

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