IPod times out / iTunes Locks Up / Synch not working

Hey everyone... I am having a terrible time here.... For Christmas I bought a new iMac Core Duo and an 80GB iPod. I transferred all my music from my old Mac, a G4 Cube, using the Migration Assistant when the new iMac booted up for the first time.
I am not able to get a successful sync from my iPod. Some of my symptoms include:
(a) Plug In iPod, iTunes launches. Sync Begins. iTunes locks up at a particular song (i.e. Synching 138 of 13275). iPod still appears to be synching but nothing is happening.
(b) Plug in iPod, iTunes launches. Sync Begins. iPod quits synching after a minute or so and returns to its main menu. iTunes still thinks it's synching but is locked at a particular song (i.e. Synching 38 of 13275)
In any case, iTunes hangs at some random song number, and all I can do is Force Quit, but iTunes never really quits... the little black triangle stays under the icon and I can't relaunch or Force Quit iTunes. More often than not the the Finder locks up as well. In any case, I can't even restart the Mac... I have to hold the power button until it forcefully shuts down.
I've done the "5 R's" several times, and I've also put the iPod in Disk Mode and reformatted it thinking something might be wrong with the file system but the symptons persist and I can't get a reliable sync.
I saw in some of these posts that a powered USB hub may solve the problem but that did not work either... same symptoms.
Having been a devout Mac evangelist for the last few years and a confirmed 'Switcher' since OS X came out I'm disappointed in this and hope a fix can be found soon. Any ideas from the collective?
-Anthony
iMac Core Duo / iPod 80GB   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  
PowerBook 17    
iMac Core Duo / iPod 80GB   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Hey... I brought my iMac and the iPod to the Apple store... they tested it and determined it to be a DOA unit. They gave me a new one and it's synching fine.

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