ITunes locks up when iPhone 3G attached, unlocks when not attached

Mine worked for half the afternoon, but now I get a sick sounding beep when I plug it into the USB port, and it locks up iTunes (windows Vista 32 ultimate). Tried different USB ports, shutting down the computer, resetting the iPhone, etc., but nothing works. It doesn't lock up the Mac, and the iPhone appears in iTunes, but iTunes is unresponsive. I downloaded and installed a few apps, and moved about 5 gigs of music videos onto it, and now iTunes locks up. I deleted the apps, but that did no good.

I did some additional research and even tried a hard reset and restore from prior to when I saw the issue.  That did not help. 
I found one response to a similar situation that recommended clicking on phone's podcasts and waiting out the spinning beach ball.  I chose to do that late in the evening, so I clicked, and went to bed.  It was working and accessible in the morning.  So far, so good.

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