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Hello everyone,
I wonder if anyone can help me: in an attempt to prevent me from deleting all my music from the ipod (showed exclamation mark and folder) i deleted itunes and ipod software and attempted to reinstall - itunes 6 worked but i couldn't reinstall ipod software or the new updater (just said "nothing to install"). I then went and erased my ipod using disc utility. Its now in disc mode and has no itune/ipod software on the ipod...
Can someone PLEASE help get the appropriate software onto my ipod or I'm gonna be stuck with:
a) the world's most expensive paperweight......or
b) a new flashdrive that will annoy me everytime i see it
I've already spent 6 hours tonight trying to figure it out and now i'm waving my white flag!
Thanks in advance

I wonder if anyone else has noticed a wide variety of problems using either AAC or podcasts.
There seems to be a heavy theme where trying to listen to podcasts results in the dead-when-asleep problem where the pod is unresponsive and needs to do a hard cold boot (not sleep mode, and occurs whenever the podcast is paused or the pod goes to sleep manually or automatically when midway thru a podcast)
Also the folder/exclamation mark icon starting problems... seems to occur alot with ipods that are being used to play audiobooks and podcasts.
I had to erase/disk utility/restore my 4G ipod two weeks ago and ran it through three complete cycles of the battery playing ONLY music, all of which are still in the old mp3 style format. Nary a problem. Not ONE 'stuck asleep, needs hard reboot' issue.
The moment I reestablished all my podcast feeds and achingly resubscribed to the ones I wanted, the same folder/exlamation point and 'stuck on startup' not showing on desktop and clicking-ipod-HD- armature issues all came back... Im thinking if it will keep this up I will be forced to pay money for a flash based pod exclusively reserved for podcasts audiobooks and AAC files!
Tapping the SIDE of the ipod ( I see lots of ppl suggesting the back of the pod, which would serve only to bounce the readwrite heads into the ipod HD platter) has worked only to allow me to mount the ipod and quickly erase/restore it.... I hate the idea of havig to do this so often, its only going to wear the thing down fast.
Oh, its a replacement ipod I got while under warranty, which of course has expired... so the replacement was only good for a meagre two months so far before Im hosed. This bags chunks.

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