IPod software problem, not updater.

I have a seemingly very bad problem with my 15GB I think 2G iPod, it won't properly connect to my computer, but it will connect. It shows up as a disk image on my computer sometimes, and as an iPod others.
Anyway, it tells me I need to reformat the iPod, which I have tried several times, I have tried the Disk Utilities erase too, neither have worked, it keeps telling me that it can't be ejected. So, I decided to try and use Terminal to erase it. I used every rm variation I could think of, all of them though told me that the "Device is busy." even the sudo version didnt work on that...
The songs and all the data are on my iPod but it just won't connect now. It had been fine until just last night. I had updated it last around a week and a half ago, but it just wont work now!
Please help, its really getting me angry.

The device is busy message usually can be handled by going into Terminal, running Top, then finding the PID of the offending process and killing it using that number, with sudo in front for the first one:
"sudo kill 426"
or whatever. At least that works when a CD is bad and it gets hung up, not allowing me to eject it. Look for the busy process that's hogging the processor. It's worth a shot.
What file were you attempting to erase, exactly?

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