Firwirer connections are not supported?

My ipod reads "firewire connections are not supported. To transfer songs connect the USB cable provided."
I tried to copy a CD to my ipod. It was a copy of a CD from a friend from his ipod whch I guess is not compatable with mine. He ahs a PC. I have a mac. He ahs an old 60g ipod I have a new ipod culor 30 gb. My guess is that he has firwire connections and I have USB
I now cant turn off the ipod. I can play it but the battery goes very quickly.
It constantly reads the above message i.e firewire connected are not supported/
I HAVE RESTORED FACTORY SETTINGS AND DELTED THE CD FROM MY ITUNES. WHAT can I do?

Firewire connections are not supported. To transfer songs, connect the USB cable provided.
That is the same message I'm receiving on my iPod as of yesterday. We've been on vacation for a week and the iPod has worked flawlessly, just like it has since the day I got it. That is, until yesterday.
We were driving down the freeway when it started pausing, skipping, and generally giving me grief. I listen to it in the van via a connection through the cassette tape player. I've been using this set up since the day I got my 80gb video iPod.
For whatever reason, that message simply started popping up. I can't seem to get the center button trick to work most of the time, but occasionally it will. No matter what I do, I can't turn off my iPod any longer. It has to simply go to sleep.
So, I got home and the first order of business was using the option in iTunes to wipe the iPod clean, reset it to factory defaults, then reload all 60gbs worth of data onto it. I did that. I play around with it a bit this morning, but with nothing connected to it. It seemed to work fine and would turn off as normal.
I connected it to the cassette adapter a short while ago, got about 2 miles down the road, now its doing the same thing again. Its giving the same error message, skipping/pausing, and won't allow me to turn it off.
Help?

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