Trouble with iTunes 9.0 and syncing iPod Nano

Hello everyone.
Just this morning after updating to iTunes 9.0, I attempted to sync my iPod.
After plugging it in, my iPod displayed the "connected, do not disconnect." message. It came up in iTunes, but did not sync right away like it used to.
I pressed the sync button, and both iTunes and my iPod displayed their usual "syncing" messages.
Then, my iPod stopped it's syncing message, and displayed "connected".
iTunes also froze while saying "Updating files on Pierce's iPod"
iTunes isn't frozen, but syncing is.
I left it like that for about 15 minutes, and it is still syncing an item that is only 3MB big.
So I thought of restoring it, so I press the restore button, and in the background, i see iTunes uploading all my files onto my iPod at great speeds, Like it should. iPod is also saying its usual "syncing" message.
I press "cancel" on the restore dialog, and then syncing stops again.
My iPod only syncs fully when the "restore" dialog is up.
This is really annoying if this is what I have to do every time to sync my iPod.
I am also not sure what section to post this under. I choose iTunes because it is way more active then iPod Nano.

The problem resolved itself.

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