Iphone 3gs freezes when synching

Since updating to iTunes 10.6 and ios 5.1 today my iphone 3GS keeps freezing at the last step when I'm synching it with my Mac. It's saying 'Waiting for items to copy' but it stays like that for ages each time I've tried to synch it. The only thing I can do is unplug the USB but the iphone still keeps trying to synch so I have to shut it down completely and then turn it back on.

Have now tried this but still getting the same problem when I try to synch.
It's currently saying 'Synching photos to "my iphone" (Step 6 of 6)' and then underneath "Waiting for items to copy" with the wavy bar below that but with no indication of progress along that bar if that makes sense.
On a couple of the previous attempts to synch I left it like this for an hour to see if it was just working through something but it just stayed like this!

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