Can't recover disk space after finishing/deleting movies

My ipod touch (8GB) still reports that 2 GB are taken up by videos, even though I don't have any accessible videos on it now. These appear to be the footprints of two movies I rented from itunes. But I finished watching the movies and they don't appear in my itunes rented movie list. When I look under the "videos" tab on my ipod, the two movie titles briefly flash on the screen and then disappear -- so there is no way to select them and attempt to delete them again. I have tried syncing to the itunes library on my Mac (which does not show the movies) but this does not release the space on my ipod. What can I do to recover this 2 GB of lost space on the ipod?

I had the same issue with former rented movies still "appearing" though I had viewed and could no longer access. When I upgraded to 2.0 I ended up restoring to factory defaults and that process removed all the ghost images and freed up the memory. However, I'm noticing that it is occuring again. Has anyone found a way of preventing or correcting without reimaging and restoring?

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