ITunes locks up when I attach my 5G iPod. Help!

Recently I have had an issue that when I attach my 5G iPod to my PC iTunes, iTunes locks up. iTunes works fine by itself. My iPod seems to have no issues with the music that is already in it and it works fine by itself. When I attach the iPod, the PC knows a USB device has been attached as I show an additional drive added to my PC. The problem is that when I attach the iPod to the PC iTunes locks up. All I can do kill the application. When I do that the iPod remains as a USB drive on my PC.
I could be wrong about this, but I think this started when I went to iTunes 7.7.
Does anyone think this is an iPod issue rather than an iTunes issue?
Any suggestions?
Thanks...
---Paul in Southern NJ

I`ve had the same problem, you should leave it at first for some while. Most probably it`s checking the songs. I`ve had it locked for about 15 mins when doing a backup ( don`t know why, because i do this very often ) If it doesn`t snap out of it, you should put the iPod in disk mode, and restore it, this could ( not for sure ). If you think that the 7.7 upgrade did this to you, then just uninstall and reinstall the 7.6. You can take it from here: http://files3.download3000.com/download/f929e83a52d28f065f4a408beb691940/1/49662 /iTunesSetup.exe
Hope this helps, Darie

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