IPod and Vista Error (-48)

Hi. I recently bought a new Acer computer with Windows Vista on it. I installed iTunes and started having problems. So I reformatted the iPod and installed the newest software on it and updates iTunes to 7.3
I tried putting my songs onto my iPod. I have a 20gig 4G. It got about 2/3s of the way done and then just stayed on the one song and kind of froze up. When I disconnected the iPod and turned it on, it only had like 10 songs on it, even though iTunes showed I had uploaded a couple thousand on it. So I retried with a smaller batch of songs and now I get an error (-48), which I'm not sure what it means. Also, whenever I plug in the iPod, I get a pop up from Vista telling me to schedule a disk check on the iPod to try to fix problems, but when I did that, my computer just froze during the reboot.
Can anyone help me out here? Is there an update I'm missing? Or can anyone tell me how to fix this error (-48)?
Thanks

Although it's still not fully compatible with Vista, the latest version of iTunes (7.1.1.5) addresses some of the major compatibility issues.
So, installing the latest version of iTunes onto your computer might be worth a try (I'm not sure if your problem is rooted in a different cause, but try installing iTunes v. 7.1.1.5 anyways).
Here is the installer page on Apple's website:
Download iTunes - 7.1.1.5</font color</a>
-Kylene

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