Won't sync after upgrade to 9.0

My experience to-date with 9.0 has been horrible. I had to do a complete uninstall and reinstall 3 times to get the software to work. It forced me to do a restore on my iPod as it wouldn't recognize it, and I still can't get it to sync.
I went through a series of errors saying that it can't copy for unknown reasons. After searching the forums I found a workaround that cost me several songs to get it resolved. Now it gets really absurd.
When I connect, it sees my iPod and starts to sync. After completing the sync, I unplug and nothing has actually copied over. When I plug it in again, I see huge amounts of "Other" taking up space on my iPod. When it resyncs, I get the same issue with nothing being playable but when I plug in a third time, the size of "Other" has doubled.
It looks like it is copying everything to "Other" and not recognizing anything as playable.
Oh how I wish I had never upgraded...
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I had similar problems. Disable your antivirus (I completely uninstalled Norton AntiVirus and installed Nod 32 (www.eset.com) after I got iTunes working.
Check out this thread which I found to be very helpful:
http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?t=251005

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