Iphone stuck in backup during sync and won't restore

Hey all, I am very new to the forum but I've been reading the posts for a while now. I am having a problem of my own since I've had my phone. All of a sudden, when I try and sync my phone, it stays in the "backing up(my name) Iphone" section. When I try to cancel the sync, it then says "canceling sync" and it will stay unless I restart my computer. I have the latest versions of Itunes and 1.1.4. This has never happened before. I tried restarting my phone and my computer. I also tried a restore, and when I do, it does the same thing. When it says backing up info, it never finishes and I still have to restart my computer. So it won't let me restore my phone either. I'm afraid to sync with another computer to restore because I'm afraid once I try to sync with my computer again it won't sync. I have even run a diagnostics twice through itunes where it does what i guess is a sync to find and test for any errors and it said everything was running properly. Can someone please help, I'm stuck: LITERALLY!!!!

Im In a similar boat.
I have a Powerbook G4 titanium, USB 2.0 in pci slot. Itunes 7.6.1 and Mac OS 10.4.11
When i sync my iphone to my computer it begins to sync and then before anything can actually transfer, the iphone stalls and restarts. At first i read something about going into isync > prefs and reset the sync history. This worked for a bit! But i really want to do a recent backup of my iphone through itunes. And my itunes hasn't backed up my phone for two months. So i read somewhere else that I could force a backup by removing the old backup in itunes > prefs > syncing. I did that and now iphone is back to stalling and restarting when syncing.
I have tried (maybe not in this order):
reseting the history again through isync.
Deleting itunes and reinstalling.
Restarting computer
trying to stop the process MDCrashReportToo in Activity Monitor (but i apparently don't have the file)
Deleting the AppleMobileDeviceSupport files and the mobile device prefs
turning off my internet connectivity.
and Yelling at the iphone
Nothing works! Im desperate and out of ideas. It would be awesome if anyone has any more suggestions.

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