I'm Having Problems With My iPod, Is any one else?

Hi, I was given a 5th Gen. iPod for Christmas which replaced my 3rd Gen. one. I loved my 3rd gen. and had not one problem with it. At first My new ipod was great until I started back at Uni after Christmas hols. which was the point at which i started using it very regularly and i started having some problems which are actually starting to ruin my enjoyment of my music.
I'll list them here. What i want to know is are other people having the same probs or am I an unlucky one and should try and get it exchanged/fixed as its still under warranty, or is there something else i can do? I've already restored twice to factory settings with no joy. And I have the latest iPod Software (1.1)
The Problems are as as such:
1. Often when watching videos the video will freeze but I still get sound and I can't get the video to unfreeze unless i totally restart the vid. from scratch.
2. The Battery Life meter is very intermittent it will jumps from almost empty to half full and back so i have no real idea what the battery life is like (this hasn't happened that often).
3. I often get the Warning triangle on start up and no matter how many time I do the reset (Hold off-on then select-menu) it wont reset properly (it does eventually work but after a combination of many tries, plugging it in etc. very frustrating this one)
4. Freezes on updates numerous times. Esp. If I do an iSync to my calendar etc. as well (Btw it doenst freeze necessarily on the iSync part just seems to happen more often if i have iSync setup).
5. Freezes on start-up at the apple symbol and again resets often don't work.
plus various other odd problems. At the moment I'm very disappointed with it. First time I've said that about an Apple product For a long time. Is there something i can do or are a lot of other people having similar problems, is this a send back issue or try and wait for the next firm/software to fix the problem?
Any Ideas would be much appreciated,
Thanks You
Paul (aka. Hyper Nova )

1) This is because of software version 1.1. See this
thread for some options as to how to go back to 1.0,
which will correct the problem...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=3754
59&tstart=0
2) This tends to happen after videos. Give the iPod a
minute or two to readjust. It should now be more
accurate.
3) This?
iPod shows a folder icon with exclamation
point
4) Restore the iPod
5) Try these...
iPod Only Shows An Apple Logo and Will Not Start
Up
iPod Only Shows An Apple Logo
I think 3,4, and 5 are related. Try the options I
posted for each one.
btabz
I just noticed that one of the restore methods you posted was to put it into Disk Mode First rather than just use the resstore straight off, I Have tried that and seems to have solved the problem, If it has thank you. previously I have only tried just restoring it skipping this extra step. Hope my iPod stays healthy, if it doesnt its a warrenty job me thinks any way thanks again

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