IPod erased songs and further problems

I have an iPod (20 GB Click Wheel) that I got Christmas 2004. I know it's getting old, but I've never had any problems with it until recently.
About 2 years ago I got an iPod connecter for my car and in my glove box my iPod has remained 90% of the time. About 2 months ago I was play the iPod through my head unit when the song stopped playing and it started flashing through song titles very quickly. I switched to the CD and unplugged the iPod, turned it off, and then tried again. It continued to flash through the songs and would not stop and play any song. Well, I finally just took the iPod out and left it in my room. About a week ago I decided to check up on it and all of the songs were gone. So today I plugged it into my computer and iTunes suggested a restore because it is corrupted. The restore was successful and I put the iPod in and it started downloading all of my songs from iTunes. Well it after a couple of minutes my macbook flashes an error that a device was removed and there could be damage done. I went ahead and unplugged the iPod from the macbook since it was already ejected on its own and now the screen is frozen and I can't turn it off.
Is my iPod done for? Thanks for any help.

This article will help you get the iPod restored, which, hopefully, will address the syncing issue: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1275?viewlocale=en_US

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Last night I tried putting a few more songs on my iPod 5th Gen. It stopped copying and iTunes didn't see my iPod anymore. I disconnected it, and tried plugged it back in via USB. All of my songs were erased, including pictures and videos. iTunes wasn't seeing my iPod and Windows was giving an error, so I tried to restore it the first time and it gave a Delayed Write message. Very frustrated now, I restarted, plugged in my iPod and it restored perfectly. Then I tried putting songs on it and I had all my songs back on, ready to go. I ejected the iPod and all of my songs and videos were erased, but my pictures were still there. Now I'm getting a folder with an exclamation, and I've tried all of the suggestions on the Support page.
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