Broken voice memos after sync -- any hope for recovery?

Dear all,
I finally found where all my memos that I did not find in the Voice Memos playlist went. They were in the Unknown Album folder of Unknown Artist, being m4a files that iTunes could not analyze. These files appear to be really corrupted, as not even QuickTime opens them. This is bad, as I really would need all (these are all lectures from my last semester in school). Have you had any experience with files getting corrupted during sync, and do you have any tips to recover these?
In a bit more detail, I noticed some files missing, but as my mic had a flaky connection (Blue Mikey is said to have problems with a few iPods having unusual dock connectors), I cursed myself for not paying more attention. But now I see many more files, and I think the syncing processes during the semester sometimes went awry (the analysis of the files always takes very long, and sometimes updates disrupted the process, or I mistakenly put my MacBook to sleep).
Is there any way to recover the raw files from the iPod, or nothing else is available than the garbled sound files? If so, do you have any guess how I might still be able to open them? (Say, these are really mp3s, not m4as, so if I correct the file format... etc.)
Thank you very much, this would be really important!
Laszlo

And backing them up by email is not an option, since some of the files are over 30 minutes long.

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