Can't eject iPod

I get this message "the disk "ipod" is in use and could not be ejected. Try quiting applications..."
I will get this even with everything closed. Any ideas?

I get this often!
I even get it when there is no applications running!
The only successful method I have had is to run up iTunes then shut it down.
Before now I have had to do this once or twice, before my ipod will unmount.
I hope this is helpful.
Apple Mac G4 744 (AGP) Mac OS X (10.4.3) bit of a pensioner!

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Nonono...there's a bug with thunar-volman and ipods that causes them to load twice and whinge about it. Note that loading two devices is, as far as I know, the intended outcome, since ipods have a mysterious second partition for storing the hopes and dreams of steve jobs himself. I don't really know what it's for, but you can use an hal policy file (fdi file) to prevent hal from loading it.
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pkgver=0.8.0
pkgrel=5
pkgdesc="new modern file manager for Xfce"
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license=('GPL' 'LGPL')
url="http://thunar.xfce.org"
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