Ipod - erased disk... now ipod only turns on and off

I had problems with my 3rd gen ipod skipping through songs. At the suggestion of the genius at the local apple store - I was to go to disk utility and erase my hard drive (using zero out function) and then reload my songs in itunes. about 4 hours into the operation nothing was happening - just a constant "scanning disk prior to erasing" message kept appearing. I finally disconnected the ipod and did a restart. Now the only thing happening is the i-pod just starts and stops and restarts - over and over again - showing the apple icon. System profiler show the ipod as an unknown device. disk utility does not recognize it as a disk. Can anybody help

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