Itunes 7.0.1 hangs when iPod 2G attached

I have updated firmware (using separate updater, because iTunes hangs), erased and re-partitioned; zeroed all data (disk utility); restored factory settings on the iPod.
iTunes displays "updating iPod", spinning pizza appears, cmd-opt-esc shows iTunes "not responding". Leaving it for an hour makes no difference.
iPod still works as a hard disk and behaves normally (boots up, menus, extras all ok).

I have managed to solve the problem. It seems that iTunes 7.0.1 is unable to play one album in my entire collection and it hangs if I try to have any songs from that album in my iTunes library. I managed to get iTunes working again by reimporting my iTunes library and then removing the offending album before it could get up to doing the gapless playback mojo on those tracks.
To reinstall the iTunes library
1- go to ~/Music/iTunes/
2- move iTunes Music Library.xml file to your desktop.
3- trash the iTunes Library file.
4- start up iTunes and go to ->File->Import and import the iTunes Music Library.xml file from your desktop.
Bare in mind if you have a big library that it will probably take a while to import your entire file list. Try removing the offending song from your iTunes library and see if it works.
Strangely, the offending mp3 files play fine if opened in Quicktime. It would seem that something to do with the files encoding is crashing iTunes gapless playback process.

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