IPod freezes around 1.28 gigs of music

I've been a this awhile trying various ways to a solution but all come down to this. I can only manage to get about 1.28 gigs of music on my iPod. I did a manual "dumping" of songs onto my ipod from iTunes so I could at least control which songs I wanted on there. Anyway does this mean that there is something wrong with my iPod?
3rd Gen 15gig scroll wheel iPod (with four buttons under the screen)
iPod software v2.3 and iTunes 5
thanks for any help and advise

Could be that it's writing information to a bad sector of the iPods HD.
Run Techtool Pro v4.0.5 on the iPod and scan the disk surface, this should verify if any bad sectors are present or not and if found it should make sure information is not written to those sector(s) anymore.

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I just bought another Ipod off ebay that is exact as mine except white- auction states the Ipod works fine, seller has awesome feedback, etc.. I bought this for a gift for my sister for Christmas. It is second hand, so warranty is expired.
I plug it in the computer, and first tried to transfer some normal text data via explorer. I had put this same data on my own black Ipod with no issues, words fine. The white? Lo and behold I get that "Data Cycle Redundancy" error during copy. My experience is that that has always meant that the original file is messed up, not the destination its being copied too... but in this case I know the original file(s) were/are ok.
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Itunes opens... recognizes the Ipod... I go to copy music, and it copies until it essentially 'freezes'. I tried many times - its not a bad file because the same file would copy the other times Id try. It would freeze on any random file, during the write process.
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