ITunes Unresponsive (frozen), or won't complete sync

G4 TiBook, 10.4.9 completely up to date. My original iPod (same model) wouldn't keep a charge; Apple replaced it under extended warrantee in 2006. The iPod plays, charges fine from the AC adaptor, but when I connect it to the Mac, iTunes become unresponsive most of the time, and I cannot completely force quit iTunes (it disappears from Activity Monitor, but it is still marked as open in the Dock, and the entire system becomes sluggish. I have to manually disconnect the iPod or firewire cable to get it to fully quit. I have been able to Restore the iPod software twice (once got an unknown error 1418), and was able to sync the music from Mac to iPod once, but only after numerous failed attempts (it would get a few tunes synched, but get no further). Prior to getting sync to work fully, I removed: com.apple.iTunes.plist, com.apple.iPod.plist, com.apple.iTunesHelper.plist. I'm not sure if that had any bearing on the finaly successful sync.
I've spent hours on this, rebooting, etc. Any ideas on what could be wrong, and any plists I might want to remove? I'm plugged directly into the only firewire port on the Mac directly. Firewire seems fine in general.
Bob
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I moved the iPod and dock to a different Mac (an Intel MBP), plugged it in, got an error (apologies, don't know for sure if it was a 1418 or other, but some kind of 'can't recognize error'), Restored and synched with this other computer's iTunes library. I'll try back on the tibook tonight and report.

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