Shuffle 1G Song Loading Problem; Locks Up iTunes 7.02

whenever I try to load a playlist onto my shuffle (1st gen, 1GB), the download stalls/hangs-up on random songs. sometimes after 3 songs, sometimes after 100. I've left the computer on overnight and the stall condition doesn't change. when I try to eject the shuffle, iTunes will lock-up (application 'not responding' in force quit mode). when I try to restart or shut down the iMac, I get the "spinning beachball of death" and have to hard shut down the system. the shuffle won't play any of the songs that appeared to load before the stall.
I downloaded the shuffle 1G reset utility & ran it several times. Stalled downloads continue as before.
after all this, I thought the shuffle had finally given up the ghost. in a last ditch effort, I took the iPod to work, and on the HP/windoze XP system (iTunes 6 installed) that I use, it recognizes the shuffle, allows me to reassign it to the windoze machine and download whatever songs I want, without stalls, hangups or system lock-ups. the shuffle works as good as new!
weird...is this an iTunes v7 vs. v6 issue/incompatibility with the original shuffle? I can't believe that Windows is working better than my iMac with the shuffle. YIKES!
can anyone suggest possible causes & actions I can attempt to get my iMac and shuffle back on speaking terms? thanks in advance for your assistance.
iMac G4 17" 800MHz 1.5GB ram Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Download 7.1 and the new Quicktime and see if that
helps.
You might also try repairing the permissions on your
machine.
thank you for the suggestion.
I did reset permissions; the problem was not fixed. because of all the "hard" restarts I had to do, as the iTunes freeze would lock-up the iMac, I also did a hard disk repair (after booting from the external bootable drive).
no improvements in the 7.02 universe.
I haven't tried the 7.1 download yet. that will be next.
I'm just glad the shuffle works from the iTunes 6 install on my work windoze machine.
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