Problems Syncing New Ipod

I brought my old ipod in to be fixed at the apple store today and they just gave me a new one. (this is a 30gig 5th gen). so i plugged it in and it starts updating and after about 300 songs it freezes.(this happened when i first got my old ipod as well). itunes froze as well, and so i waited a while and unplugged the ipod and tried again. this time it synced two songs and froze. ive been doing this all night and after about two songs the ipod will make like a repetitive clicking sound and freeze. this is pretty frustrating... is there anything i can do to fix this?

I had this happen once to me. What was my problem was a file had been corrupted and that was where it was bogging down. Can you figure out where it is stopping. Delete that file and it should work fine after that. Or at least that is how I did it.
Mort

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- Last, make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.
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