Ipod freezing itunes in Windows Vista

When I plug in my ipod, itunes freezes completely.
If I emove the ipod by pulling out the USB cable, it appears briefly on itunes (which starts working at this point), only to close as the ipod can no longer be found. In the brief time the ipod is shown, it says a software update is available.
The ipod syncs perfectly well with itunes running in Windows XP, sating that the ipod software is up to date.
Oddly enough, the ipod does show up and respond perfectly in winamp.
While I can use winamp to load my ipod, I'd rather use itunes.
Can anybody help?

Sorry, should have said itunes 7.6.2.

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