IPOD HELP!!! receiving 'Drive not ready: door open' message

My 3rd gen Ipod is on its last legs. For the past few months half the music on the ipod would freeze the ipod. Now ive tried restoring, resetting, reinstalling, etc etc... the thing is a paper weight. Every time i try to load new music on it, it A) freezes itunes and B) gives me a message saying, "drive not ready, door open" or somthing like that. What can i do? Anyone have this happen before and is it fixable? Am i stuck on buying a new ipod? Thanks for your help!!
Greg

I get the same error message. 3G iPod, ever since the latest updater and iTunes came out. I've reset, restored, uninstalled, etc...
Nothing fixes it.
Maybe Apple wants us to buy a new iPod?
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