Ipod shuffle wont play pls HELP!

Hey people
If anyone could help me it would be much appreciated. Right. I have windows 98 and my ipod shuffle has been working fine with it, i have been using winamp to transfer songs onto it.
BUT recently, i have transferred songs to my ipod as normal, they look like they have transferred as normal, but when i safely eject the ipod and try to listen to the songs, theyre not on there. just blank spaces where they shud be.
so i just formatted the whole thing to see if that wud work. i went to realplayer this time to transfer songs. again, it seemed as if they transferred as normal. but when i tried to listen to them, the error light came on indicating no songs are on it. BUT when i put it bak into the computer, realplayer indicated the files are on there! the exact songs i tried to transfer!
whyyyyyyy oh whyyyyyyyy wont they play! sumbody purlease help me, i cant hack the boring commute to work without music!!
thanks!!

Just reformatting the Shuffle with windows will destroy the firmware that runs the shuffle. IF you can't download ipod updater for Windows 98 than you will first half to "restore" the shuffle on a machine that can run Ipod updater. Than you can try and go back to third party windows 98 apps.

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