ITunes showing unknown error 1418 - Help!!

Ok, so I got my new 5th Generation iPod for my birthday to replace my iPod mini. I put all my old music onto it and listened to it today with no problems.
However, I'd bought 2 albums from iTunes last night and was annoyed to find that they had not synched onto the iPod.
When I got home I plugged my iPod in and it started saying "do not disconnect" straight away...when it was finished I dragged one of the albums I'd bought so that it would synch onto the iPod - this is where the problems started:
1. It started saying that a music file on the iPod itself was corrupted and unreadable.
2. I ejected the iPod and tried again, and again...it would always show "do not disconnect" and was untouchable in iTunes. It would still work fine when not plugged in though.
3. When I last plugged it in iTunes claimed to not be running properly and had to be shut down. I also restarted the whole computer.
4. I have now decided to restore the iPod to its factory settings to remedy the corrupted file situation but when the restore process is taking place a message comes up saying that the iPod cannot be restored due to an unknown error 1418.
5. My iPod now says "do not disconnect" in an MSDOS-style screen (it's all gone black and white and fonts are smaller than usual) when it is connected and when I disconnect it it just says that it must be restored and plugged in...so it's all a viscious circle.
I'm sorry this has been so long but I wanted to include as much info as possible so that someone might help??!
PC   Windows XP   iTunes 7.0.2.16

Having read another post with a similar issue I'm going to try to disconnect my iPod while the restore bar shows up on the screen, then reconnect it...
Does anyone have any other suggestions or tips/hints to try?
I already have tried what the site said to do re. error 1418 but nothing worked and am now getting desperate!

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