ITunes Problem Syncing ipods

Can anyone help? Every time I connect my iPod Nano (1st Gen) my iMac recognises it in Finder but iTunes doesn't. iTunes then stops responding and I have to Force Quit. Tried 2 other iPods (Classic and 4th Gen Nano) and it does the same. This has only happened since upgrading to Snow Leopard and iTunes 9.

You give very few details. If I stated that  .......
"I started my Nissan today and it started fine - but my Chevrolet will not start today - but it started yesterday. Help!" - you would probably have no idea where to begin with doling out advice or troubleshooting steps. What troubleshooting did you do? Obviously not all of it - if you did not uninstall and reinstall iTunes.
Quit iTunes, reboot your PC and then try again.
If that does not work, you could post back with the OS that your actually running on your computer - I am assuming that you are a Windows user and I could be wrong, but without some help from you .... Well we are just beating our heads against the wall.

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