IPod cannot be updated "Error -48" - Please help.

I'm so frustrated. Got my brand new ipod 80gig 5G and for the fourth time in it's first week, I've got an error message and can't add any songs, files etc to it. The only way to solve it is to restore it to factory settings erasing the ipods drive. Considering I bought the 80gig model to free up my laptops start up disk memory, this whole problem makes a mockery of the ipods memory size. Do you think I should take it back to the shop or is there a proper fix to this. What is "error -48" anyway? I can't find anything out there.
nb my software is fully up to date and I've already tried the restart, reset, retry, restore protacols. Restore is the only one that works. Is the fault with my laptop perhaps?

At the moment Apple are working on a permanent solution for this so hopefully we'll see a firmware update to fix the bug soon. In the meantime their advice is to change the Time Zone settings on your Mac to Pacific Standard Time (PST), restore the iPod and then change the time setting back: iTunes for Mac reports a -48 error during iPod sync

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