iTunes / iPod stalls when updating

[Greg McNeil]

Hi All,
I just (yesterday) received a refurbished 10 gig, touchwheel, (no dock 
connector) iPod which I ordered from Apple. After some experimenting 
and a call to Apple (which didn't help) and more experimenting I 
finally got the thing to be recognized by my iMac DV SE running OX 
10.2.6 and iTunes 3.0.1. Everything seemed fine, but as I transfered 
songs to the iPod the process stalled. I forced iTunes to quit and 
unplugged the iPod and started over. I have found that MOST of the time 
if I manually transfer just a few songs at a time to the iPod it works 
OK, but if I try to transfer an entire album or playlist the process 
will again stall.

I should also mention that the way I finally got the iPod to be 
recognized was to attach it to either my external CD burner or Hard 
Drive's open firewire connection rather connecting directly to the iMac.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Greg