IPhone locks PC on synchronisation

Hi
I have an iPhone 3GS that I bought in the last month. I find that when I am synchronising this iPhone with my PC (under Windows XP) the synchronisation process "locks" my PC for c 30 minutes with iTunes diplaying "synchronizing applications". The PC shows the hour-glass symbol and the PC is locked from any other task. Windows Task Master show that iTunes is using only c. 2% of the CPU but says that iTunes has "stopped responding" and invites me to kill the job.
I can't understand this. I have a video iPod and this synchronizes just fine with the same version of iTunes (the latest version: 9.0.1.8) and the same iTunes music library.
So clearly its something to do with my iPhone and/or its applications.
Any ideas ? I'm getting to the point where it is a real pain.
Thanks in anticipation of whatever guidance you can provide.

OK, I seem to have fixed this now.
I did a full restore on my iPhone to take it back to factory settings.
Then I declined to restore a back-up, so as to leave the settings "fresh".
I then did a first synchronise. Obviously I had to re-set my personal settings on the iPhone, but this was no big deal. Also note that if you have messages, photo's, emails, ewc held only on the iPhone this approach will delete them. You need to transfer them to your PC before you start, e.g. by email.
This seems to have fixed the problem. I guess there may have been some type of corruption in my settings: Hence re-applying a restore simply carried the problem forward.
I hope this helps anyone else following in my tracks.

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