IPhone sync Crashes iTunes

When i try to sync my iPhone with iTunes, iTunes crashes. I have reset my MAC, reinstalled iTunes, rebuilt iTunes Library, repaired permissions, deleted all applications on iPhone and iTunes. The sync still crashes. I have tried to sync my wife's iphone and have no problems, just the 3G. I have tried to sync on another MAC. iTunes crashes there also.
In all cases I can sync with iPhoto, but it iPhone never appears in iTune's sidebar and it crashes. I have checked the forums and no luck ot their suggestions. Any ideas?

This problem is so incredibly annoying to me. I download tons of podcasts directly from the iphone and then I can't sync it. I don't download them directly to the computer because I don't have much space and I just don't want them on there. Plus the added step would be annoying.
I tried the <10 podcast solution but that didn't work for me. The worse was right before a trip the synch deleted 100 podcasts I had downloaded, and also whenever i'd play music it would randomly stop in the middle of a song. I ended up having to restore the whole phone when I got back.
The one thing I've always had problems on the iPhone with is syncing. Even with everything set to manual I've always had some problem or another.
Please fix this problem, it's been around for a long time now.

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