Itunes freezes whenever classic ipod is attached

I am being driven batty and really need a fix. I have spent hours looking at past threads but nothing gives me the answer.
I have uninstalled and then re-installed itunes. I have the latest ipod software. Itunes works fine on its own, ipod works fine on its own - I just have a whole pile of newly purchased stuff I want to put on my ipod.
Itunes freezes as soon as the ipod is attached and doesn't recognise it as a device. I can see my ipod on my computer and am currently restoring it through "format" once again as I can't use itunes with it to restore it through this. Last time I tried it, I was then able to re-sync everything and it let me sync once more before freezing everytime again.
As I see there are thousands and thousands of people that this has happened for, I am hoping that there is an easy solution that will fix this once and for all. I have tried all the steps on the apple website but this is driving me batty.
My laptop is only a year old and for the first three months it all worked brilliantly. I had never had an ipod before and I fell in love with it. But surely these issues shouldn't constantly happen - please please help!

Do you have the sceurity update for Vista mentioned in this article?
Ejecting iPod using Windows Explorer on Windows Vista may corrupt iPod
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305289
Are you able to even run iPod diagnostics?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304314

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