5th Gen. iPod overall performance

I need opinions on this:
while playing a song, if I start skipping songs, eventually I hit about a 5+ second lag before it even loads the text for the selected song. I wouldn't have thought this was weird except for the fact that, on a 20GB iPod (color screen), the song selecting seemed much more instantanious with only a 2 or so second lag before loading the new song. This seems to be the case with browsing the photo library as well.
Is this abnormal behavior for my 5th Gen. iPod with just over 16GB of data on it? I didn't check how much space was being used on the 20GB iPod, but does this sound abnormal at all? Should it be performing faster, or is this all relative to how much of the hard drive is being used?

Hacking or modding any iPod goes against Apple's policies for proper use, hence it is not permitted, as per the Terms of Use, to discuss such things on Apple Discussions.
I would suggest visiting some other iPod forums (ilounge.com perhaps) to discuss this.
You're more likely to get a reply if you post there.

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When you plug in the iPod does it even appear in Device Manager? See this article for more details.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1496
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This is some of the information from the bug report that I thought might be helpful to figure out what went wrong (didn't want to include ALL the crash report, so I just included the info before the "thread crashed" details and the system info at the bottom):
Date/Time: 2007-08-08 06:42:00.704 -0400
OS Version: 10.4.10 (Build 8R218)
Report Version: 4
Command: iTunes
Path: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
Parent: WindowServer [66]
Version: 7.3.2 (7.3.2)
Build Version: 2
Project Name: iTunes
Source Version: 7320601
PID: 289
Thread: 0
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Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x72133574
Model: PowerMac10,1, BootROM 4.8.9f1, 1 processors, PowerPC G4 (1.1), 1.42 GHz, 1 GB
Graphics: ATI Radeon 9200, ATY,RV280, AGP, 32 MB
Memory Module: DIMM0/J11, 1 GB, DDR SDRAM, PC2700U-25330
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USB Device: iPod, Apple, Up to 480 Mb/sec, 500 mA
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USB Device: Hub in Apple Pro Keyboard, Mitsumi Electric, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel, Microsoft, Up to 1.5 Mb/sec, 100 mA
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USB Device: USB TO IDE, Up to 480 Mb/sec, 500 mA
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No, I did not restore from backup. I restored to factory settings at the Apple Store and when I got home and tried to set up my email, my iPod restarted again. The time reset to ten minutes previous.
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