Hello I am running Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit and using the latest version of the 64-bit iTunes... 8.0.2 I think.
I am having MAJOR problems with iTunes on my computer. It seems like it only works when it feels like it. ESPECIALLY when I am copying music into iTunes or editing the info on the songs I have, iTunes just freezes. If I am lucky I am able to force quit it with the Windows Task Manager, but most of that time that doesn't even work. It stays frozen while all my other programs work perfectly fine. If by chance I am able to force quit it, I restart, and NONE of the songs are playable. The only way to bring things back to the way they were after a crash is by hardbooting the system: holding down on the power button untill it shuts off, then start it back up.
These crashes in iTunes also occur VERY frequently when I am attempting to synch my iPod. I have a 6th gen (I think. It's the one that came out along with the first iPod Touch) 160 gig iPod. With these random crashes during sync, I had to completley restore my ipod before I could do anything, and iTunes would crash while it was restoring, fucking it up even further. By some miracle, I was able to safely restore it, but now it crashes while syncing. I have a very large iTunes library (over 16000 songs), and it has taken me about 3 weeks straight of syncing and restarting the computer in order to get my entire collection on there when it should have taken at most one hour if it didin't crash after every 10-50 songs.
For this very reason I am TERRIFIED of syncing my iPhone on my own computer.
I've tried every soultion I found so far, and nothing has helped at all. Any suggestions? Anyone with a smiliar problem? I need HELP!