ITunes keeps freezing while syncing iPhone 4s

Hi all,
This is an issue which seemingly came out of nowhere... sometime early-mid June, my iTunes stopped working with my Iphone 4s. This has been plaguing me since, and no matter what I have tried, nothing seems to be working. I have been reading through all sorts of related threads, but nothing seems to be working. iTunes has no problems recognizing the iPhone, whether over wireless or wired. When I attempt to sync my phone via wifi, it prompts me saying the session failed to start because the iPhone can not be found, or it simply disappears from the left bar. While trying to sync the phone via USB, the sync session starts as normal, backs up with no issue, transfers app purchases, etc, and proceeds to the final stages to update the music on my phone (sometimes Step 5, sometimes Step 6, and sometimes Step 7).
EVERYTIME without fail since the issue started, iTunes will completely freeze and render itself unresponsive. During the music sync, it may sync as many as 300 songs before freezing, or as few as 2. The spinning arrows indicating it is syncing stop rotating, and there is no functionality with iTunes and I am forced to start the Task Manager and End Program, or more often than not, completely reboot my computer.
I have tried multiple solutions presented in various threads, to no avail. I have tried restoring my phone, which gave me the most hope during the process, but sure enough, on the final step and syncing music, it froze at song 271 of 600.
Can someone PLEASE provide some insight into this issue? I know plenty of other people have experienced this, I am hoping to solve this soon as I am sure you can all understand it is EXTREMELY frustrating.
As a side note, I have plugged my iPad 2 in (also running iOS 5.1.1), and it worked fine!?
Thanks in advance.

Have you received any resolution on this?  I've been having the same problem for some time and it was working intermittently, no not at all.  NEED HELP PLEASE!!!

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