Dock and iPod failure link?

I have had around 4 iPods (all 20GB, 4G, No Color) in the past year and a half. They usually work well for about 3 months out of the 4 that I have them, then around the 3.5 month mark I start getting Folder+! errors and the sad iPods, so I send them in for repairs.
What I am finally connecting is that after 2.5 months, I usually find my iPod dock again, and start using it. Not long after this the iPods come to a halt.
Could this be a faulty dock, or is this a universal problem?

I've ran DU:
27/10/2008 00:30:38 Disk Utility[191] Disk Utility started.
27/10/2008 00:31:34 Disk Utility[191] Verify permissions for “Macintosh HD”
27/10/2008 00:31:34 Disk Utility[191] Reading permissions database.
27/10/2008 00:31:34 Disk Utility[191] Reading the permissions database can take several minutes.
27/10/2008 00:37:20 Disk Utility[191] Permissions differ on "private/var/log/secure.log", should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r----- .
27/10/2008 00:38:22 Disk Utility[191] Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26.
27/10/2008 00:38:28 Disk Utility[191]
27/10/2008 00:38:28 Disk Utility[191] Permissions verification complete
27/10/2008 00:38:38 Disk Utility[191] Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
27/10/2008 00:38:39 Disk Utility[191] Reading permissions database.
27/10/2008 00:38:39 Disk Utility[191] Reading the permissions database can take several minutes.
27/10/2008 00:44:28 Disk Utility[191] Permissions differ on "private/var/log/secure.log", should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r----- .
27/10/2008 00:45:30 Disk Utility[191] Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26.
27/10/2008 00:45:38 Disk Utility[191] Permissions repair complete
Don't know if the files are of significance, but when I ran it the second time DU reported no more issues.
DU was ran from my normal account (not the new administrator).
Techtool has 'passed' the iMac on all the tests it performed.

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I've ran DU:
27/10/2008 00:30:38 Disk Utility[191] Disk Utility started.
27/10/2008 00:31:34 Disk Utility[191] Verify permissions for “Macintosh HD”
27/10/2008 00:31:34 Disk Utility[191] Reading permissions database.
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27/10/2008 00:38:22 Disk Utility[191] Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26.
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27/10/2008 00:38:38 Disk Utility[191] Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
27/10/2008 00:38:39 Disk Utility[191] Reading permissions database.
27/10/2008 00:38:39 Disk Utility[191] Reading the permissions database can take several minutes.
27/10/2008 00:44:28 Disk Utility[191] Permissions differ on "private/var/log/secure.log", should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r----- .
27/10/2008 00:45:30 Disk Utility[191] Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26.
27/10/2008 00:45:38 Disk Utility[191] Permissions repair complete
Don't know if the files are of significance, but when I ran it the second time DU reported no more issues.
DU was ran from my normal account (not the new administrator).
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