ITunes 9 hanging on "backing up" my iPod Touch

I use: Windows XP + iPod Touch 2nd Gen
This morning I upgraded to iTunes 9 and my iPod to version 3.1.1. Everything went fine.
But iTunes is now hanging on "Backing Up my iPod"...a stripy bar that kinda moves/scrolls is showing. But it never finishes. I have tried stopping and starting the sync. I have tried restarting both iTunes and my computer. It still just hangs on this.
I should also add that my iPod is backed up/synced regularly (several times per day normally) so it's not like it has months of backing up to do and therefore it's taking ages.
Any ideas please? I have left it all day and it's now afternoon LOL!
Thanks very much in advance

Having pretty much the same problem with my 1st Gen iPod Touch. I am getting the beach ball every sync. The odd thing is that the Touch shows that the sync is finished and even in the iTunes top screen, it say that the sync is finished, but the spinning sync wheel, next to the iPod Touch icon on the side-bar, is still there, although not spinning.
When I try to do a force quit, it says that my Touch is still syncing :/
I am running 10.6.1 and iTunes 9
Hehe, did not realize this was a windows section, so I guess it is beach balling on both systems...
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