World's slowest iPod sync on a brand new Mac

Hi everyone, apologies if I don't get the terminology right: Hi, my problem is, I bought a brand new iMac yesterday and proceeded to load my itunes library into itunes - it took 14 hours to transfer 24,00 tracks! The entire itunes is performing at a crawl, a simple play command takes 3 to 5 seconds, scrolling down to the next track takes the same time. I want to sync my ipod classic 120gb with this library but although it says 'syncing', the sync icon hasn't moved for 30 minutes and ipod display simply says 'connected'. Can you think of a reason why itunes is running so slowly? It's just like being on a windows pc running multiple tasks and slowing down to zero.
many thanks

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