Serious iTunes sync problems with 160GB classic

Upgraded to 10.6.4 and iTunes 9.2 at the same time last night.
The classic connects fine and shows up in iTunes, but when I click sync it starts beachballing. Other suggestions to leave if for 10 minutes did not work, as it was still spinning about 45 minutes later.
Downgraded to iTunes 9.0 and used the previous iTunes library...still beachballing just the same.
The iPod itself does not seem to be corrupted (yet), despite me force quitting iTunes about 3 times trying to get it to work.
It doesn't appear to be copying anything to the iPod because the free space hasn't changed at all. iTunes seems to unfreeze for a split second about once every 5-10 minutes, causing the OS to jump to the Space I have allocated for my iTunes, but it instantly begins beachballing again. If music is playing when I click sync, it continues playing while iTunes beachballs – so it's just the syncing part that is causing the app to crash.
I have not tried to sync the library via another computer yet, but I do not want to do this as this is my main computer.
Thanks in advance
Message was edited by: discombob

I purchased an iPad on Saturday and upgraded to iTunes 9.2 as recommended. Seemed to be working fine. However when I connected my 160gb iPod Classic to sync my latest music that's when the problems began.
First attempt it mounted the ipod successfully but beach balled after 30 seconds and then refused to respond.
After force quitting iTunes and reconnecting the iPod this time iTunes spent 15 minutes attempting to verify iPod before beachballing again. Attempted this several times with the same result.
Never had any such issues with any previous versions of iTunes. Reading this forum (and others) it seems many many people are experiencing identical problems. As it stands I can't sync any of my last weeks videos, music or podcasts. We need a fix for this asap!

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