Continuous iPod Errors

I'm having a lot of problems with my iPod. Basically it starts like this. iPod just won't be read by iTunes period, shows up in My Computer though. Then I start getting the error 'The file or directory \iPod_Control\Music is corrupt and unreadable. Please run Chkdsk utility'. So I run chkdsk, and it does its' thing. Then I try again, and the error came back. I've tried restoring a few times, but it still happens. Then, one time, it said 'This iPod is in restore mode and must be restored before being used by iTunes'. So I restored it, and then it wouldn't appear in iTunes. So I restarted the iPod Service and it (of course) pops up saying that whole 'please run chkdsk' error.
What could be wrong? I'm going to try reinstalling iTunes next.

I had a problem similar to that. You may have to restore your iPod, uninstall iTunes, and use a diff. program (I use Xplay 2). After I did that, everything worked. Hope that helped.

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