Spinning Pinwheel When Sync

Hi yall. I tried searching and didn't see any answers to the problem I am having, so thought I would give this a try.
iPhone 4
MacBook with Mac OS X 10.5.8
iTunes 10
All are up to date.
ISSUE: Whenever I connect to iTunes, iTunes recognizes the phone, but whenever I try to click on the options on top (such as music, videos, photos, etc) I get the spinning pinwheel of death. Also, if I click sync now or check for updates, I get the same spinning pinwheel. iTunes is completely unresponsive. I have to restart the computer all together. This issue just started about 2 weeks ago, everything was syncing/working fine until then. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? I've tried all the different fixes from apple support, but none of them fix the issue. I tried creating a new user on my MacBook and everything worked fine, so I am not sure what to do. I have attached a pic of the screen I get when I try syncing.
I also have an 80gb iPod and when I sync, iTunes becomes unresponsive as well.
I have let the computer be and after 15 mins sometimes, no response at all.
Anyone have any ideas?

Hi backatchu.
You will probably get better results posting in the Mac OS X
v10.5 Leopard forum. Here is the link.
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1225
It will help if you give details from hardware in about this Mac
such as CPU, RAM, HD size and HD free space.(bottom of finder window)
The SBBOD is usually from CPU usage.
Here is another link to help you ask more questions.
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sbbod.html
Good Luck,
A

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