I'm experiencing the same CRASHES.
I've been using MC (version 10.0.173) for a few years now and I just upgraded my 1st Gen. 20g ipod to a new 60g black ipod. Very, very cool btw! Every time I click on "handheld" or the drive letter ("G" in this case) it always crashes. It reads Media Core has encountered a problem, etc.
I've read a few of these posts and it seems that deleting the "itunesDB" file corrects this problem. ???But I've looked everywhere and cannot seem to find this file name. I've also unselected itunes from opening up automatically. btw, I did install the itunes v.6, and it automatically loaded most of my songs onto my new ipod. I want to reset my ipod using MC, but it crashes. I do like MC, but I do not want to make this a big project everytime I use my ipod. Should I upgrade to MC11? What benefit does MC11 have over MC10?
Any hints, suggestions would be appreciative.