ITunes freezes while copying to iPod

I seem to have suddenly developed a problem with iTunes freezing whenever I try to copy individual songs or whole playlists to my iPod. I have taken the iPod to a local Apple store and it checked out OK, but iTunes still freezes ...... maybe, this relates to the other postings here about problems with the latest iTunes version?
What I would like to do is reinstall iTunes, but I do not know how to uninstall first (I am not at all familiar with how this works in the Mac environment since for the 1.5 yrs I've had my G5 I've never had ANY software issues!). Any help would be appreciated!

I have downloaded the latest version of iTunes from Apple's site and installed it, but it still freezes when trying to copy to my iPod.
I would really love to perform a complete uninstall of iTunes and reinstall the latest version, but how do I uninstall iTunes???

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Hello,
I've seen tons of unanswered "itunes freezes" posts, but I'm hoping to get lucky. Before I even upgraded iTunes, a freezing problem started happening.
Anytime I copy some mp3's to my ipod, I see it add them all and then it goes into the "Syncing iPod - Please Wait" message, and iTunes freezes every single time. In order to use iTunes again, I have to completely CtrlAltDel and close iTunes then disconnect and reconnect my iPod. After I'll be able to reopen iTunes and use it until I have to sync my iPod again.
I'm using an iPod classic (160GB) and Windows Vista.
I've already tried completely uninstalling iTunes and all other programs by Apple Inc. and reinstalling iTunes and the problem still happens. I even upgraded to the latest version of iTunes and the problem still occurs.
I've tried changing the drive letter of my iPod that doesn't help either.
Any other suggestions?
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