IPod quit playing movies

I have been using the iPod fifth gen to play movies now for well over a month. Today it quit playing movies. Not just one, but all of them. They worked yesterday. I have checked the settings and everything seems normal. I even re-imported the movies and still they don't work. The movies play fine in iTunes. This also goes for video podcasts. Plays fine in iTunes but no go on the iPod. I am running version 1.2.3.

So, I reverted back to 1.2.1 and the iPod is still doing the same thing. I am beginning to think that an iPod was a mistake.
Only thing I can figure is that Steve didn't like the case I put on it and decided to somehow punish me. He did it to the iPhone users.
If someone has an idea of how to solve the problem, please let me know.

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