IPod refuses to sync on iTunes 9.0.1

Every time I try syncing my music, the process will hang a quarter of the way. When it hangs, I'm unable to cancel the sync process. This forces me to quit iTunes, which often results in an inability to relaunch iTunes unless I restart the computer.
As you can imagine, I'm extremely frustrated.
It seems the only way I can add music to this iPod is to manually add about 100-200 songs at a time. Frankly, this will take forever on a 60gb iPod. This was happening just before I upgraded to 9.0.1--suffice to say, I'm disappointed that this version hasn't found a fix for this problem.
Apple--can you give us some indication you're working on this problem?

Re install iTunes 8 as that has worked for me. iTunes 9 caused me major problems and the Genius bar even thought my iPod hard drive was history but going back to 8 solved all my problems.

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