4th Gen iPod Works one minute then the next iTunes says it is corrupt

OK, I have been reading these posts for a few weeks now. About a month ago my iPod died. I plugged it in to my MacPro and started to upload music to it from iTunes for a car trip. It froze and when I tried to eject it the Finder froze. So I warm booted it and removed it when the Apple appeared on the screen. The Finder worked again once it was no longer connected. Then when I tried to start up my iPod the Folder icon appeared. I did the steps support tells you to when you get that icon. Nothing, then I did a restore with iTunes. It worked again until I tried adding music to it. The darned thing froze up again and I was back to square one. I gave up for a week, then came back to it and tried again and amazingly it worked! I put my entire 32GB music library on it. Success! But no. I plugged it in just 2 days ago and it did the freezing thing again and I am again given the folder icon and iTunes recommends a restore. What is going on here??? Seems like I have been reading a lot about this sort of thing. I tried going back to an earlier version of iTunes, but that did nothing. Anyone have some suggestions? This thing is WAAAY out of warranty, so I'd be better off buying a new one, but I don't want to!

I had the a similar problem. I have a 4G iPod b/w like yours, I have found that on some of these iPods that the hard - drive is not connected very well to the rest of the iPod. I found a site, and i am looking for it right now for you, this fixed the problem for me for a bit, then I had to repeat it again. after the second time if the iPod is still doing this then I would seek out a new one.
This is a link to a site that will tell you how to fix it: http://forums.ipodlounge.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=93789/
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