Problem viewing videos with 5th Gen 30 GB Video

My iPod video is older, got it back in 2005. It used to play videos just fine, but now when I try to play something, it jams up. Just a black screen with a play indicator and a battery indicator, but no movie. You can't menu back and have to soft reset just to get it working again. Music works just fine.
I tried restoring the factory settings as advised by the Apple support page, as well as updating the iTunes, etc. There should be plenty of memory available... It seems like it started this after I bought a season of a TV show in the iTunes store, but even without those files on the iPod, it still jams up.
Help?

Well start with these articles and see if that gets you anywhere...
iPod is not recognized properly by computer when USB drivers are not installed properly or are out of date
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305136
iTunes for Windows: iTunes 7 doesn't recognize iPod
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304434
iPod missing in "My Computer" or in iTunes for Windows
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61711
Also you might try forcing the iPod into disk mode first, then connecting it to your computer and see if that makes it show up in iTunes...
Putting iPod into Disk Mode
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
Windows confuses iPod with network drive or hard drive and may keep iPod from mounting or songs may seem to disappear
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1493
Cheers,
Patrick

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