Ejection Problem

I experience a problem when I try to eject my iPod(30GB Video). I eject it from iTunes by clicking on the eject button by my iPod. Then a window appears saying the iPod cannot be ejected because the files in my iPod are being used by other applications. How do I fix this? I've tried resetting it with the Menu and Select button action, but the problem didn't go away.
30GB Video Windows XP

No, I didn't realize that we had to disable the anti-virus. We didn't do that with our 5th Gen i-Pod and we didn't have any of these problems. Is this something specific to Shuffle? Thank you.

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