Ipod stops/freezes during downloading

I have a click wheel black and white screen ipod. I have had no problems until I took it and tried to download the music from my girls imac g5. I went through all the questions, like you will erase your content and download the new songs etc. It started to download and would get to about 130 songs then stop. I have done the 5r's a zilion times with both of our computers with the same results. When it freezes it still makes noises as if its thinking, and I have also heard repetitive clicking on a time frame of 8 seconds or so. It does download, but only the first 130 songs or so. Can anyone help!
ibook g4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
ibook g4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

More info:
I found a program at download.com called TuneTech (http://prosoftengineering.com/products/tunetech_info.php)
Every time i did a scan on my iPod's hard disk, the scan would lock up once it had gotten to block 114,688
My theory is that's the bad part of the hard drive that files plug up at, kinda like a bottleneck on the freeway... except this isn't a slow down, it's a total lane-blocker!!!

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