Ipod 30 gig drive stops in middle of loading

i have a 30 gig ipod 5th gen and if i load videos after nearly 10 gigs of videos are loaded the ipod stops spinning.
i suspect that it is a flaw in the requirement for usb because none of the firewire ones spin down while loading content.
i updated and running latest os x and latest itunes and i have a powermac g4 agp with a usb 2.0 card from belkin.

Does this only happen with a particular track or is it just any track?  Does this happen with the same tracks in iTunes?  Have you tried a hard reset to see if that makes a difference?
How to reset iPod
It wouldn't hurt to also work through all of the suggestions here:
Troubleshooting songs that skip on iPod
B-rock

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