ITunes stops responding 3/4 of the way when automatically synching music

I have an Ipod Classic 80 gig for 8 months. Recently I am having an issue synching my entire music collection (3600 files and growing). ITunes gets to about 2900 files and then locks up and quits responding. This forces me to manually unplug the USB apple cable, thereby not ejecting properly.
The Ipod says 'ok to disconnect' then boots off then on and then I have no music files on it. I have restored the Ipod back to original settings multiple times and have retried even manually controlling the ipod, but Itunes keeps locking up without warning.
I have the latest version of Itunes and the latest software installed on the ipod classic. I am using Itunes for Windows (PC). This is maddening. I dont know if its an issue with the Ipod or the very slow, resource hogging Itunes software.
Can Apple help with software issues? I dont think its the ipod. Help would be appreciated. I paid $250 for an Ipod that wont hold all my music.

After much confusion and spending 3 hours at the Apple retail store with my laptop, observing Itunes lock up multiple times and throw weird error messages, the 'Genius' bar people finally agreed to swap my Ipod Classic for a 'refurbished' one.
Voila. Problem solved. It was the hardware, not my laptop or the Itunes software. I resent the 'Geniuses' trying to blame my equipment or Windows XP for their Apple produced hardware failure.
AND...it cost me $30 bucks to swap it. This is what the worthless Apple 1 year warranty gets you. They also strongly pushed the $59 'Apple Protection Plus' extended warranty on me. The 'genuises' must get a commission for every one sold.

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