Syncing iPod in Vista

I wish Apple would clearly address this issue on their support page. From what is written there, it seems as though iTunes IS compatible w/ Vista (aside from a few 'compatibility issues'). I've called Customer Support on several occasions and have been told, finally, that iTunes is NOT COMPATIBLE with Windows Vista. If this is the case, then please just say this on your support page and make it very clear that syncing iPod on a Vista-based machine is just not possible yet.
And is it just me, or is this issue taking Apple WAY too long to get resolved?? I would really love to get back to using (and updating, specifically) my iPod!
iPod w/ Video 30gb Other OS

And its worse than that ... it seems its something to do with the memory management in the iTunes program and not the USB connection as I first suspected. Here was my issue... I could not sync more than about 1 gb of data to my Video iPod. Now when my big back log of podcasts is downloaded ... BSOD with the message KERNELSTACK_INPAGEERROR.
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I am having trouble with my Ipod syncing with my computer. Before I got this new computer (with Vista) I didn't have a problem and now I don't know what is going on. Basically, when I plug the USB cable in and plug the Ipod to it the computer will not bring up Itunes to sync. Itunes is not recognizing that the Ipod is plugged in. When I plug the USB in, the computer tones, signaling that something has been plugged in. So the computer IS recognizing that something is attached...it's just that Itunes doesn't. When I open Itunes and go to File the option to Sync Ipod is not available.
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I was able to figure out this problem.
That error message regarding access privileges has nothing to do with what the actual problem is. I've reported this to Apple Support and hopefully, they will change the error message to something more meaningful.
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Even though my playlist was setup correctly, the problem turned out to be that I had stored some of my files in the My Music folder on my Dell. The path to that in Windows XP is \Documents and Settings\User\My Music. In Vista, Documents and Settings has been changed to just Users.
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I've seen tons of unanswered "itunes freezes" posts, but I'm hoping to get lucky. Before I even upgraded iTunes, a freezing problem started happening.
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