IPod goes into recovery mode when plugged in, and forces me to restore

Basically what is written above ^^ is what is happening to my iPod Classic 80GB. It hasn't done this until recently, and every few days or so when I go to sync new songs onto my iPod, it goes into recovery mode and says that the iPod must be restored. Now, normally this wouldn't be a problem, but when you have an 11,000 song library that takes around 4 hours or more to sync, it gets really under your skin.
I'm running Windows Vista, any help?

I just purchased a Classic iPod, and two days later it is stuck in this restore loop. The iPod worked fine until the restore was complete. When unplugged from the computer, it responds fine, but now cannot sync at all to put media on the device.
Current machine is WinXP SP2 (work machine). It is also happening on Win7 desktop, 13inch Macbook (OS 10.6.3), and Mac Mini (OS 10.6.3)(personal machines).
Does this appear to be a faulty device?

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