What to use and how instead of ITunes?

I finally bit the bullet and purchased my first IPod this weekend (160GB). I am really looking forward to being able to carry my music with me anywhere, especially in the car and at work. At home I have all my CDs ripped to MP3 and use Slim Server and Squeezebox to play music throughout the house, http://slimdevices.com. It's really slick. SlimServer is a terrfic application for cataloging my music library. I also use Easy CD-DA Extractor to rip my CDs as I have found it to be the best.
Now comes the issue of ITunes....
Since purchasing the IPod this weekend I have not been able to use it as I have been spending all of my time trying to get ITunes to catalog my music the way I want and the way I have it already in my Music folder. This is becoming a joke! Not to mention when trying to sync the attemps in ITune with the IPod the IPod stops syncing after about 4 albums and just sits there.
According to the limited (and I do mean limited) instructions that come with the IPod, it appears that ITunes is the only way to get music into the IPod.
1. Is this true?
2. If not, what is better?

1. is it true, not exactly.
2. is anything better, not really.
If you want to look at alternatives here are a couple you could check out, but you won't be able to use the iTunes Store.
Yamipod
http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/
Foola
http://www.floola.com/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=WiwiHome
Here is some general help on using iTunes in case you haven't seen it.
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod101/tunes/

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