IPod is corrupt: songs won't sync correctly

So, I got my girlfriend an iPod Classic for Christmas and she said that iTunes keeps telling her to restore her iPod every time she plugs it in to sync music. She said that she has restored three times. She thought it was broken so she gave it to me to fix. I recently found out that she was running an old version of iTunes, I think like version 7 or something. When I tried to sync it with my library it worked until I got to about 2000 songs out of 6000 and it gave me a 1303 error and said that the iPod was corrupt. I'm not sure if it's the hard drive since stuff can be put on it. Is it possible for her old version of iTunes to be the cause of the problem?

The exact thing has happened to me as well. I plugged my ipod into the usb port of a computer at my university (to just charge the battery) without realizing that itunes was not installed on there. Since then, each time I attempt to restore my ipod I get something that says "There was a problem downloading the ipod software for the iPod 'iPod'. The requested resouce was not found." I don't know what to do, I have latest versions of both itunes and the ipod software.
Dell Inspiron 8600   Windows XP  

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