Sync causes iTunes spinning beach ball.

Hi,
When I sync any of out ipod/iphones iTunes hangs with the spinning beach ball and I get an error message that says: "Can not find file....". I have to force quit iTunes.
I have reinstalled iTunes, trashed iTunes plst, repaired disk permissions and tried a different USB cable with out any luck.
I have a new iMac (6 months), newest version of iTunes (today).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Brock Fisher
San Diego

Did some more testing & it appears that it only happens when I update video podcasts. Audio podcasts update without stalling iTunes.

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