IPod Touch 2nd Gen. Problems

Hello
Lately I've started having multiple problems on my iPod touch, to list them:
1) the shuffle feature doesn't work as it should; in a playlist of around 30 songs it will shuffle through the same 5 or 6 for ages! I have to repeatedly press next for several minutes till it finally reaches a new song and even then it usually just adds that one or possibly two extra songs into its loop.
2) I'm not sure about this one but when I play a video once the video finishes it starts again from the beginning depending on whether or not I've got repeat turned on in the music app. As I said I'm not sure about this. This could be how it's meant to work but its never done it before and has only occured recently and sporadically.
3) When downloading apps if I move from the home screen the app is installing on, it just disappears and I have to start the download again; also it can just cancel any downloads for no apparent reason and it won't download anything till I turn Wi-Fi on and off.
4) The create playlist feature no longer works, I add songs to a playlist and the next time I sync my iPod with the computer it removes them from the playlist instead of updating the computers version to match my changes.
5) When I try continue a playlist or album I was listening to several hours ago it will randomly play either another album or the entire iPod library despite the fact that when I open the music app it opens at the point at which I left it.
6) My Google calenders occasionally disappear meaning I have to remove and re-add my account to regain my calender info.
I have restored the iPod twice, if its of any assistance my iPod is the second gen. iPod touch 32GB iOS 4.2.1 and it is NOT jailbroken (I don't do that sort of thing). My computer is a late 2008 aluminium macbook running Mac OS X Lion.
I hope you can help me
Thanks in advance
Thomas Murphy

I'm not convinced that adding to a two-and-a-half year old post is going to get you anywhere.
You should be running iTunes 12 by now, while the original post refers to iTunes 10. So one would imaging that any problem caused by bugs in iTunes 10 had been sorted out by now.
I suggest that you create a new discussion, specific to your issues and that your description of the problems you have is a bit more detailed than you have provided so far.
Darkling115 wrote:
I'd prefer not to reset it because the only things i've heard is that makes it worse.
Don't believe everything you read, particularly if it is as negative as that.
Darkling115 wrote:
Apple if you are reading this I hope you guys come to your senses and fix it, lots of people have the same problem with 2nd and 3rd generation IPODs. It is annoying but I have faith that you will fulfill these requests. THANKS!
What problem precisely? I regularly use a 2nd generation Touch and do not have any problems with it.
By the way, Apple do not routinely monitor or read these discussions. This is a user forum, where we help each other.

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