ITunes freezes halfway through a sync

I had to restore my iPod last week. When I reconnected the iPod to sync with my library, it got about halfway through copying everything across, then froze. I've tried to get it to copy my library on to this iPod a few times now, and it freezes every time, but never at the same place.
When I force quit, or disconnect the iPod, although the process will apparently have got to about 1500 songs, only six or seven will actually be on the iPod.
I've reinstalled iTunes 7.0.2.; got my computer to rebuild my library from scratch; totally reinstalled OSX; restored the iPod several times; run all the hardware checks... but no solution.
Any bright ideas?
iBook G3 Mac OS X (10.4.8) Running 20GB clickwheel iPod

Have you tried updating it and doing a restore with the latest iPod updater (2006-03-23)? You can go here and install the latest updater on your PC and then hook the iPod up and run the updater http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/
Doing a restore will wipe everything off the iPod, but once connected to iTUnes, it will load everything back up. More on restoring can be found here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60983

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