IPod won't sync to iTunes, hangs and freezes

Part of the way through autosyncing my songs to the iPod, the process appears to freeze, and iTunes will not respond. It doesn't seem to be any particular song, as it's happened on at least three songs at separate times. All of the songs play in iTunes.
As of yet, I've only been able to unfreeze the computer by force disconnecting the device... very bad for the iPod. I've restored it several times, tried all three USB ports on my computer, and I'm sadly out of ideas.
I have an 80 GB iPod Video, 5th Gen, I believe, and iTunes 7.2 (34).

I also have this exact problem. So far, I have:
1) Uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes 7.2 five times
2) Reset my iPod countless times and restored it (wiped the memory) twice.
3) Taken the iPod to Apple, who looked at it and said it was fine
4) Tried to downgrade back to iTunes 7.1.1, but I can't find a link to it anywhere. I never had any trouble with the previous iTunes release
5) Since both iTunes and the iPod work perfectly by themselves, I reasoned that the connection between them might be bad. So I replaced the USB cable and tried a different port on my computer. This gave the best results so far, but then the same thing happened. Now when I connect the iPod, it doesn't show up at all on my computer.
6) Updated Quicktime to the latest release
7) Yelled at iTunes and the iPod collectively and called them rude names.
Like the other two posters here, files will transfer fine, then all of the sudden, at some random time, a transfer will hang and the whole program freezes. The only way to eject the iPod is to manually disconnect it, get fussed at by iTunes, and reset the iPod. I'd guess that there's some issue with a buffer somewhere, but it happens randomly. Sometimes, I'll transfer 600 songs plus some videos and it will hang. Next time, it will only transfer 10 songs before hanging. It makes no difference if it's transferring music, video, media purchased from the iTunes store, or music I've ripped from my own CDs.

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