ITunes locking up, and disconnecting iPod randomly.

After updating my iTunes, my iTunes not only takes about 5 minutes to start up, after every few actions, the program will lock up for about 1 min. Also, when updating, iTunes at random will disconnect my ipod and stop the update. I then have to resync the ipod after the lockup caused by the disconnect, and I lose about 15 min.
Please help?
My laptop is a Toshiba A75 (I believe) with 1GB RAM, 3.3Ghz P4, etc, so I don't think that the specs of my computer is what's holding up iTunes. Also, all my other programs run perfectly.

I remember when i used to have a 30gb vid and it clicked. i took it to the apple store with no success with it, they deemed the hard drive had failed and gave me a new one....clicking from the ipod is a good sign of a failing disk. i suggest taking it to an apple store's genius bar to speak with them. i hope im wrong about the hard disk but thats what happened to my baby..

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