Ipod is freezing constantly

Hi,
I've had my 30G ipod since Christmas 2005 and I have been having problems with it freezing for a couple of weeks. I have only restored it once since these problems have started. Today, it froze but then it gives me the message: Connect Ipod to computer. Use Itunes to restore. I do that when I get home, and it asks me to restore and I do. It starts to restore and then it stops and says error 1418. My drivers are updated and I tried both on my laptop. I am stuck. My warranty also ran out so I really don't know what else to do. Any other info you need, let me know. Thank you!

I too have had my 30 GB iPod start freezing on me recently. It also won't eject from iTunes correctly. It will say "There is no disc in the drive," although I ahven't asked it to do anything concerning a disc in the drive \. It also says that it cannot eject because its files are in use, although they bloody well are not in use. The freezing seems to occur esoedially when I am trying to skip a song: the on-screen info doesn't move, & it surely doesn't skip to the next song, asI had asked. I reboot it. & it works again, for a time, but rebooting it afetr playing 5 songs is really annoying. What can I do to remedy this?

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