IPod can not be synced

Like many others i'm having a **** of a time syncing my 2 iPods. 5th gen video and 2nd gen shuffle. They are both coming up with the same errors when trying to manually sync.
The ipod "xxx" cannot be synced. The disk could not be read from or written to.
I have tried several different things including restoring both ipods all to no avail. I even left the video one resoring over night without it doing a **** thing. I think that iTunes froze up.
I only think all of this happened when i updated iTunes to the lateset version.
I need help my daughter wants some more songs on her shuffle soon.
Cheers
  Windows XP  

this first error message, about "disk failed to write [...]" is the one i got. i didn't know about the article - thanks. before i do, are any of the suggestions worth pursuing if itunes doesn't recognize my ipod? i.e. my ipod doesn't start up? after i got the error message, my ipod was frozen and so was itunes. i wanted to see if any of the 9 gbs or so of songs that seemed to have been transferred made it onto the ipod. i repeatedly tried safely removing the ipod but kept getting a error about the, "generic volume." so i shut down itunes via ctrl/alt/del + end program. after doing that and unplugging the ipod i got the queasy face. i'm not sure if that was a result of the error while synching (disk failed to write...) or from aborting itunes and unplugging the ipod or a combination of both actions.

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