"New" 3g iPod wreaking havoc on my PB

I swapped my 3g iPod for a new one yesterday at the Apple store ($70 battery replacement deal). Upon getting it home to my computer and attempting to load my songs, the following happens:
1. About 30 songs actually load, then the iPod freezes.
2. iTunes also freezes; will not respond to Force Quit command.
3. Finder then freezes up, Beachball of Death appears.
The only way to unfreeze everything has been to reboot the iPod, which subjects me to all sorts of warnings about not properly disconnecting the iPod. iPod reboots, re-mounts, and repeats the entire routine if I continue to load songs. If I attempt to eject the iPod from iTunes, everything freezes again, and I'm forced to pull the plug before being told it's ok to do so.
I did not have this problem in iTunes 7.0.2 with the old iPod (which I'm now beginning to miss despite the nonexistent battery). Additionally, iTunes is telling me that the new iPod is up-to-date software-wise.
Is there a way to make the new iPod behave, or is this Apple's way of forcing me to buy a new iPod?
Thanks in advance!!
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3) "new" 3g iPod fresh from Apple store, iTunes 7.0.2

Codeman60 wrote:
iTunes is either setup for manual syncing or to allow use of your Nano as an hard disk (by default, the latter is selected). If you un-select those options in iTunes, it will behave like your previous iPods. Just select your Nano in iTunes and look on the summary (or is it General?) tab.
As long as one of these 2 options is selected, the backlight will always stay on. When neither one is selected, the backlight will turn off based on whatever setting you have selected on the Nano.
If you do un-select both options, the Nano won't show connected all the time, but iTunes will still "wake it up" when syncing.
Thank you for the information. What is odd however is that my previous iPods were also set for manual syncing, and use as a hard disk, but their back lights would shut off after a few seconds. This new iPod is the only one exhibiting that behavior, might this be a new behavior for this generation of iPods?

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