Error (-50) CANNOT SYNC IPOD!

Hello, I have a 4 GB iPod mini. Everything was working fine BEFORE I upgraded to iTunes 7.1. Right after I did this, all of a sudden I cannot sync my mini. I get this message:
"The iPod cannot be synced. An unknown error has occured. (-50).
I am suprised, because I genereally don't have any problems with iTunes. I hope this is something that can be solved. Thanks.

Oh My~lanta! I am just about at my wit's end w/ this too!!! I'm experiencing the same problems although it seems like everyday I get a new error message!!!! My computer crashed back in December and ever since, my IPOD has not been the same. I thought it had something to do w/ the computer crashing but from what I read here, it seems it may be something w/ the latest version of ITunes and if so, why on earth has it not been fixed yet??!!! Today I have just about had it! My Ipod, even after rebooting, restoring, reinstalling won't even work at all and I get a message today that says there was a problem downloading the software and the requested resource was not found. All of this started when I tried to plug in my Ipod Mini to sync it to ITunes. It said IPOD cannot be synced, unknown error occurred (-48). I tried to restore it at that point and then I got the message that it could not be synced, Requested File could not be found. After a few days and trying this again, I got another message that said Disk could not be read from or written to, Corrupted & Not readable; IPOD connection status failed. Last night when I completely uninstalled and then reinstalled, it started to sync and appeared to be downloading most of my songs, well it got to 200 and then stopped, said it could not be synced and completely erased everything again. Today tried all over again as well and got a message on my computer saying Delayed Write Failed, unable to save data on file F. So then I reinstalled and rebooted and all that again and now I have a "coruppted Ipod" and can't even do anything with it! I'm at a loss and pretty upset that there is not a 1-800# that I can find to call and talk to somebody about this over the phone! Any help???!!! Please, I'm really freaking out about this!
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