Itunes freezes at "finding purchased items" when syncing itouch!?!!?

So I bought an Ipod touch 3rd generation from my friend about 4 months ago. it was working fine and syncing with itunes perfectly. then, about 2 months ago i updated my itunes to itunes 10.2.2 and that was a total mistake. i would open itunes and it would run slow, then when i tried syncing my ipod it would always freeze at "finding purchased items" and i had to force quit every time. i figured i would just wait for another update. now, a couple months later, ive updated to itunes 10.3.1, in high hopes that it would work. but still, nothing. it continues to freeze at "finding purchased items" I've tried to sync my old Ipod nano to the same itunes library and it worked fine! it's just not working with my itouch!!!
Ive read up on it and done all of the following:
Deleted ibooks
Sync from back up
Reinstall itunes
Restore itunes
Made a new library
Turned off home sharing
Manually synced music
Unsubscribed to podcasts
Allow it to attempt to sync overnight
And many more things!!!!!
And just now i tried syncing it again and now it began freezing at step 2:preparing to sync!
the ONLY conclusion that i can come to is authorizing my computer. Since i bought the ipod off of my friend we decided to share an itunes account so that i could purchase stuff using her itunes account. since i got the ipod i HAVE made many purchases using her account. but when i tried authorizing my computer to her account it says something like "this account can only be authoorized to 5 computers" the problem is, i really need it to sync to more than 5!?
This has been going on for too long and now its getting extremely frustrating for me. I am a teen and I would love to listen to the newest music! so this is a real problem for me. Someone, PLEASE HELP!!!!! AND FAST!!!!!!!!!!
-Ipod touch 3rd Gen
-Windows
Screenshot of how it froze just now.....

i just found out how to deauthorize all computers. i deauthorized them and am re-syncing the ipod now-hope it works!

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