ITunes 6.0 freezing my iPod HELP!!!

I just downloaded 6.0 on Sat. Every time I plug my 20 gig 3rd gen into it, it freezes iTunes as soon as I try to load music onto it. Please help. Please respond, someone... anyone.

I don't know if this will work for you but here is what I did with iTunes 5:
Alice Childress, "How I fixed iTunes 5 and Updater 2005-09-23 problem" #16, 04:49pm Oct 16, 2005 CDT
If you can connect by both firewire and USB you might also want to try using the way you don't usually connect. Finally, there are links to Apple's feedback forms in the other post. Maybe if they hear from enough of us they will fix these buggy software releases!

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