"Iphone cannot be synced. Disk not found/cant be read or written to"

I get these messages when I try to sync: "The iphone cannot be synced. The disk could not be found." AND "The iphone cannot be synced. The disk could not be read from or written to."
It's synced twice out of about 50 tries. Windows XP Pro. Virus/Firewall disabled. Autoplay disabled. All other USB devices disconnected. ITunes reinstalled.
Any ideas?

Update: Ok, I have been playing around with this for quite some time now and have come to a few conclusions.
First, it appears that this is being caused (at least for me) by corrupt files in my iTunes library. My iPod (30 GB, 5G) syncs with my complete library but my iPhone only syncs with 1 playlist. So I completely wiped all music from my iPhone and started to re-sync one album at a time (extremely time-consuming). I got through the letters 'A' and 'B' ok but when I got to the 'C's, boom, error message.
At this point, I opened the playlist in iTunes and deleted the last album I dragged into it. Then I disconnected my iPhone, re-connected it and did another sync, thereby deleting that last album off the iPhone. Then I added the next album and re-synced again and everything went smoothly. So now I am up to the letter 'G' but this process is painstakingly slow.
Now obviously it was most likely only one song in each of these "bad" albums that was corrupt but I didn't want to go song-by-song just yet.
Based on the fact that I used CopyTrans to rescue my library off my iPod after a hard drive crash, my first assumption is that this process somehow corrupted several files while loading them back into my newly installed version of iTunes. The only thing I can't figure out is, if this is actually the case, why have I not had the same problem syncing my iPod. It has been syncing perfectly, both before and after the hard drive crash/recovery?
What I need to find is a way to identify ALL of the corrupt files (if this is in fact what is causing the problem) quicker than copying to the playlist then syncing to the iPhone. Does anyone know of any software out there that can be used for this purpose? It doesn't have to be free either as, like CopyTrans, I don't mind paying for something that works. Of course, the jury is still out on that one.!

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