Problem with syncing ipod

Hi, I just bougt the new ipod and am experiencing problems when syncing my music. when transferring my library (10gb) the progress bar in itunes freezes at random and does not continue transferring songs. everything works perfect with my nano, that's why i suppose there should't be anything wrong with my imac. anyone have a similar problem?

I'm experiencing the same exact issues with a brand new iPod and a 40 gig iPod non Photo. iTunes will copy tunes along to a random point - stall - and then machine locks up until iPod is disconnected. Upon disconnecting iPod it becomes corrupt and needs to be reformatted (flashing folder error, etc.).
This is the first issue I've ever had with an iPod and I think there must be something software/firmware related that is plaguing us.
None of the disk mode tricks work consistently either - it's just a loop until you finally get all the tracks to copy over.
Apple "Genius" told me that the hard drive was bad on my 40 gig - but now that I see the brand new out of the box 1 hour iPod is also having troubles over USB I think there's more to this... help!

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