ITunes freezes while iPod is syncing

Got some new podcasts, started to sync the ipod.
I guess in the middle of syncing iTunes froze or something with the iPod messed up. It won't disconnect, iTunes stopped working and I can't even manually eject the pod using "safely remove hardware"
I had to shut down my pc in order to unplug the pod. In the meantime, this freeze during the syncing causes and subsequent shut down causes the iPod to erase itself.
I restored the pod and tried again but the same thing happened. Frozen during the syncing
any ideas?

On Sunday, I put some newly downloaded music on my ipod and ejected it. I look on my ipod a few minutes later and it says that it is full but shows no songs, no movies, no pictures.
I restore it. It starts to sync and then freezes and gives me the error. I restore again. Same thing. I put it into disk mode. Same thing. I uninstall/reinstall itunes and restart my computer. Same thing.
I took the ipod to the genius bar at my local Apple store and they did all these tests on it and said it was fine and that it is probably a problem with my computer. I REFORMATTED my hard drive at home (On my PC, originally running Windows XP SP2) and I reinstalled XP and got SP3. I reinstalled iTunes and loaded up my library, which was on a separate hard drive. It loads and I hook the ipod up to sync. It freezes after about 33gb had transferred. I finally get it ejected and there is no music on it.
So I transferred my music library to an external drive and I formatted the ipod with my iBook (running Leopard) and it synced with the library on my hard drive there, but as soon as I tried to add the music that I had backed up on my external, it froze.
I restored and tried again. Same thing. So I brought it to work with me this morning. I restored it here (work computer is Windows XP) and it synced up with the library on my work computer. Again, I tried to add the files from my external and it froze. Could this be an issue with my music library being corrupt or is it an issue with iTunes 8.x.x or is it a problem with my ipod? We all have very similar problems and we aren't getting any answers. I've tried the 5 R's so what else is there to do?

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