IPod freezes when transferring songs.

Hi,
My iPod was working perfectly fine before the latest iPod update. Then when I updated my iPod I started having a lot of the same problems as everyone else; the computer not recognizing that the iPod's connected.
Anyways, I managed to somewhat fix the problem by restoring my iPod using the iPod update previous to the latest one. After doing that, I can now connect my iPod to my computer with no problems.
However, as you all know, restoring your iPod erases everything on it. So now I have to put all my music back on. This is where I have problems.
I have tried both the manual and automatic methods of transferring my songs from iTunes to my iPod and no success with either way. What happens is that as soon as I get to anywhere from the 100th to the 150th song in my iTunes library it gets stuck. For example it will say "Updating songs on Dijita's iPod. Copying 107 of 1000: Song Title" and it will stay there and not get any further. Any attempt to stop the process or shutting down iTunes freezes up the system.
If anyone can help me get my music back on my iPod, that would be fantastic.

I was having a very similar problem with my 3rd Gen, 15GB iPod. The iPod would crash and lock up iTunes and I had to just unplug the 'Pod to free up the system.
It turns out it was the FireWire hub I was using that was somehow causing the problem (the hub was also the cause of my iSight not working correctly with Delicious Library but that is another story). If you are using a hub, and you can take it out of the mix I'm guessing your iPod will work correctly.

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