ITunes crashing whenever anything is plugged in

i've an iPhone 3G and an iPod Nano 5G (the video one). since this morning, whenever i plug in either, iTunes hangs, and eventually crashes. I haven't tested either device with another computer but since both the iPod and iPhone are having problems, i'm assuming it's not a device problem, but rather a problem with iTunes.
iTunes works fine when nothing's plugged in, but the minute i plug anything in, boom. spinning beach ball. so far, i've tried logging out and in again, shutting down and rebooting, reinstalling iTunes, restoring my home folder via Time Machine to yesterday (when iTunes was crash free -.-) and reauthorizing my computer via iTunes after deauthorizing it. zip. nothing's working.
i'm upgrading to an iPhone 4 next week and it'll suck if i can't plug the fella in for syncing :\
help ):

I have the same problem: if I load iTunes for a second time and my iPod is plugged in the iTunes app and the system menus (top right corner of screen) freeze up.
Unplugging and plugging in the iPod seems un-freeze everything for me.

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