IPod 5g 30gb freezes...iTunes...Failed-Delayed Write Error

For some reason my iPod is just going whacko! When I plug it into my computer everything is reconized fine, and iTunes starts to sync the iPod with my library...after about 45sec. of "coping" the iPod screen freezes, and then an error message comes up at the bottom of the screen stating Windows Dlayed Write Error - Failed...anyway, it does this everytime and I can't put music on my iPod cause of it. It's not iTunes itself cause I tried it on my laptop and it did the same thing. It's not the iPod I don't think because other programs work fine on it, like EphPod, but I want iTunes to work since I have put so much time into correcting the library to just the way I want it.
-Previous Problems & Solutions-
When I first got my iPod it was ok getting it setup and stuff although I was concerned because when it first formated it it put on a partition so I could only fill it up 4.7gb, te size of the formatted partition. But that comes in later...well, my friend kinda droped it after the first week...thats when I got the real troubles, when I went to go add songs to my iPod it acted weird, it would be reconized by windows explorer, although it wanted me to format it. But not by iTunes. After trying to reset it a billion times, I finally just decided to format it with windows, thus solving the partition problem, but I left it formatting all night and when I woke up my computer had completely frozen and the format had only gotten to 5% so I then tried to restore it now that the partition was broken...yeah! It worked, ad iTunes now reconized it. And I could open it with windows explorer. I guess it's ok to format it with windows. As long as it's a FAT32.
iPod 5g 30gb Video 1.1 USB 2.0 Windows XP Pro AMD Atholon XP 6400 2.0ghz 512mb RAM USB 2.0

I had the same problem last night with the same iPod. I use a USB docking station with my laptop and it has some USB ports on the back. I had added another USB device and ran out of ports, so I plugged a 4-port USB 2.0 hub into the docking station, and the iPod into that. I then had the same problem you describe. I re-arranged things so that the iPod was back plugged into the docking station (which itself is a 4-port hub) and everything worked okay. I guess the iPod doesn't like being plugged into a hub that's plugged into a hub.
If you use a hub, try it without, or try on another USB port.
My system is all USB 2.0, if yours is 1.1 it may just be slow enough to cause iTunes to "time out".
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