Album shuffle has stopped working

My 2nd gen nano has stopped shuffling albums. It used to do that just fine but then stopped for no apparent reason. I have reset the iPod, cleared and restored it all to no avail. Repeat is not on. It won't shuffle songs either.
It is otherwise completely fine. Advice please.

I have an aluminum shuffle that I've had for a few
months. It worked perfectly up to about a week ago.
I turned it on and pushed play and it blinked green
to orange about 3 or 4 times with no audio. Looking
at the card, I think that means there is no
content.
So I plug it into my mac pro and it comes up as
normal in iTunes with content. I take it out and try
to play, but same thing, blinking errors. iTunes
seems to let me put stuff on it and remove stuff, but
whenever I eject it and try to play, same blinking
errors.
So I try to restore it and it goes fine until it asks
me to name it, and I do and click 'Done', then it
gives me this error:
"The iPod 'shuffle' cannot be synced. The disk could
not be read from or written to."
So I think there is something wrong with the memory
(or accessing the memory) so I bring it into apple.
Here's where it gets interesting. I talk with a
genius and he connects it to his mac book pro and it
works perfectly. He restores it, puts music on it,
ejects it, and no problems at all. He even uses my
dock thinking it could be a dock issue, and it also
works fine. Last thing he did was restore it and
give it back to me.
So I plug it back into my mac pro, put some content
on it, eject it, and the blinking returns!!! Tried
to restore it and same problem. I tried a different
USB port and same problem. Tried getting the new
iTunes (7.1) and same problem.
I know this is a crazy long explanation, but does
anyone have any idea what could be going on? I can
try it on a different machine, but assuming it works,
what does that then mean about my mac pro?
Interesting... have you tried grounding yourself before touching it? What did you do with the Shuffle and iTunes just prior to this problem?

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