Spinning color wheel when accessing iTunes and iPods Need Help

I hope somebody can offer some help. I have an iMac G5 running Leopard 10.5.6 and the latest version of iTunes and have several iPods ranging from an old iPod photo up to my newest 160 GB classic purchased about a week ago. My iTunes library is stored on a LaCie 1 TB external USB2 drive.
On to my issue. When I access iTunes I often get the spinning wheel but especially often when I try to hook up one of my iPods to sync anything. For instance I will hook up an iPod and then click on the books tab of the iPod in iTunes to select what to sync. I will get the spinning wheel for several minutes before it finally opens the tab. When it finally does, it let's me select what I want but then if I they hit apply button, I get the wheel again for several minutes before it finally syncs. It is driving me nuts. At first I thought it was my new iPod but it does it on my others as well.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

mrtoad wrote:
I have an iMac G5 running Leopard 10.5.6
try if updating to 10.5.8 helps. get the combo updater from here: http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10_5_8_ComboUpdate. repair permissions before and after running the installer.
when done, check software update from the  menu and install any updates offered.
JGG

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