IPod stops syncing in middle of file transfer

Hello all,
I'm having some problems with my 5th generation iPod when syncing to my notebook (running OS X Snow Leopard).
I have it set to manual sync, and when I move my music files to my iPod to begin syncing, it will sync up to approximately 5 or so songs (sometimes it will reach up to 10), then syncing will stop. After syncing stops, the iPod appears to unmount from both iTunes and the desktop and I get an error message saying that the disk cannot be found, then another error message that says the standard "eject before removing device".
I'd also like to note that during the syncing, I hear the hard disk working normally up until the time the 5 song mark, and it's as if the disk just completely shuts down. I've restored the iPod through iTunes and tried repairing the disk with Disk Utility, but Disk Utility says that the drive appears fine.
Could this be a hard drive issue? Any thoughts or suggestions? Oh, and I thought it was the USB connector cable, but that's working fine with syncs to my iPod nano and iPhone. Any help or insight would be very much appreciated.

Over the past couple of days I realized that I had ESET's Cybersecurity installed and running on my Mac. I turned it off and tried syncing again. There was no change in behavior.
I then discovered Apple has made available an update to iTunes to accommodate the impending release of iOS 4.3 for iPad etc. There were no other "fixes" listed in the description of the update. Nevertheless I updated iTunes. After the update I tried syncing and it failed again the same way as described above. I then tried to sync again and it worked!!
Other than CyberSecurity not running the update iTunes was the only difference between failure and success of the sync.
I don't post this as an answer to the question, but rather simply as further information to those interested.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1363
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