IPod Classic 80gb SLOW in iTunes

Just wanted to add my voice to the growing number of people complaining that their new iPod Classics are causing iTunes to freeze, crash, not respond, etc.
I got mine yesterday, an 80gb one, and after a four hour synch I assumed the slowness I experienced when trying to disconnect was a result of the long first synch and thought nothing more of it.
Today though, I tried to update some podcasts and make a playlist and the entire process took about fifteen minutes because each time I tried to do ANYTHING, iTunes stopped responding for about a minute.
After a search of the web I see that a lot of people are reporting the same thing, even after getting replacement iPods. The Classic just isn't compatible with iTunes - which seems a pretty MAJOR oversight! Does anyone know if Apple are going to address this problem and sort it out with an update - or are us iPod Classic users simply stuck with a lame duck product that never should have been put on sale?
What annoys me the most about this, is that I didn't really want the Classic model anyway, I wanted a 5th gen 80gb iPod video, but by the time I'd gotten my money saved for it, the Classic replacement was out and I had to buy that for the 80gb of storage I need. I got my girlfriend a 5th gen for her birthday earlier in the year and it's been fantastic, so when my 2nd gen finally died a few months back, I looked forward to joining her with the new model.
If this problem isn't sorted out soon (either through a software update, or Apple publically apologizing for not testing their product and replacing everybody's flawed Classic with a comparable new 5th gen) this will be a real shame and a stain on a usually reliable company's reputation.

After several days with firmware 1.0.2 I still experience the following bugs:
- Randomly pauses while playing every once in a while (1-3 times per day, playing some hours per day)
- Infinite syncing - if I don´t pull the cable in the right time it syncs all over again
- While menus where horribly slow with 1.0.1 they are still very slow sometimes. I have many very big playlists (e.g. combining some genres on my nearly full 160GB Classic) and entering the playlists menu sometimes results in freezing for over 20 seconds
I hope 1.0.3 will come out soon and fix these problems, because at the moment this new iPod is a really buggy device.

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