Fed up with disfuntional ipod.

After reading lots of people's postings I can say I totally sympathise: the clicking sounds, ipod freezing, not charging, sad mac/folder error icons, ipod not recognised from pc, not going into disc mode, not restoring to factory settings, etc.
I had to send it back for service 4 times in one year, then the warranty ran out, I bought the service pack, had to send it back again, and the last time Apple basically returned it to me unfixed. I finally got a replacement but the same thing happened again after 1 month and now I want to throw the **** thing out the window....
Does anyone know if a bad/damaged mp3 file can cause this repeated problem? The only thing I can think of is that my music library might have some dodgy files which may be conflicting with the ipod's software or messing up its hard drive. Every time I have restored the ipod or got it repaired/replaced, I always copy back the same music from my pc, cause I can't download or burn again so many albums....
Does anyone have any links/advice as to how to run a check in a music library without needing to check every song file individually?
Desperate need of help from somebody!

I have the same issues. itunes 5.0.1.4 doesn't recognize my mini. ipod updater doesn't recognize my mini either. i have uninstalled itunes 5 and reinstalled 4.9, but it didn't work still. something in itunes 5 changed something in my system that reinstalling 4.9 doesn't fix it. updater just shows that i have no ipod connected. if i try to get updater to check for my ipod during the updater installatin, it just sits there and says "waiting for ipod". it's not my usb port because i can read and write to my ipod. i did the entire list of chores that apple suggests on the site including disabling all other functions and services, reinstalling the com port, uninstalling everything, reinstalling everything, getting windows install clean up, e v e r y t h i n g! nothing worked.
I then installed itunes 4.9 and updater 1.4 in my other laptop. i was able to update to firmware 1.4 using that computer. when i put the ipod into that computer w/ itunes 4.9, everything works fine. of course, it asks me if i want to link that laptop w/ my ipod. i said no, because i want to use my original laptop w/ the ipod.
anybody have a solution for this? it's like we all have the same symptoms and going to the same doctor and we end up having to diagnose ourselves. this is extremely annyoying and inefficient.

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