Error 13019 when trying to sync music on iPod nano

I've had my iPod nano for over a year, and just a few days ago, it has started to show me this error message
whenever I try to add or remove music from my iPod.. Althought I've looked and it seems to be a somewhat common problem among Apple users, the instructions many have posted and the instructions in the Apple support section are not help to me. According to Apple support, to fix this problem you must:
Select the device name in iTunes under Devices.
Click the Music tab and under the Sync music option, choose Selected playlists.
Deselect the Voice Memos playlist.
Click Apply and then click Sync.
However, I do not have the "sync music" option checked,
and I control my music manually. By checking this box and re-syncing my iPod, I would lose a lot of the music on my iPod already. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong section?
Does any one have another option or any ideas?

Some have been able to resolve it by removing podcasts and/or rebuilding their iTunes library.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451
B-rock

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