IPod mini coming up with all kinds of errors!

My iPod mini (2nd Gen) was working perfectly fine until a couple of days ago when it refused to be updated and in the end I restored it. However, resorting it seemed to make no difference, the iPod once updated about 72MB of music but after that had an error and stopped. Now when I plug in my iPod I get the this error message:
iPod cannot be synced. An unknown error occurred (-48).
itunes then attempts to sync it anyway, then comes up with the error again.
iTunes then says it is updating the files on my ipod. It updates a certain amount then stops, but no error message comes up. The ipod page says it has 3G of music on it.. but I have 4G of music that should have been put on it. When you click the arrow next to the ipod's name on the menu and click on a play list you can see the names of some songs in there, but not all of them. When I disconnect my ipod and go to play something I find there are no songs on it and no play lists. It still charges fine when it's connected to the computer.
Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong?
Windows XP
Windows XP

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