IPod Touch Lagging & Crashing

Very often, my iPod touch lags, or crashes frequently. It's been doing it since 1.1.4, and ever since restoring to 2.0, and now updated to 2.0.2, it's still doing it. Sometimes the song skips, the seek slider doesnt work (ill slide it to the middle of the song, but the song keeps playing and the elapsed time just freezes).
So now what? And don't tell me to restore. I have 9500+ songs on iTunes and going to 2.0 was a pain in the ***. Unless theres a way to save on the music on my iPod touch dont even mention it.
Message was edited by: FledMorphine

I had the same problem on 1.1.4, it hasn't happened again since 2.0 (Of course, I didn't restore from a backup when I went from 1.1.4 to 2.0 to be safe)... Probably an issue with 1.1.4 that carried over in the backup. If that is the case, I have found that restoring the iPod from a hard restore mode (AKA DFU: Sleep for 5 sec, sleep and home for 10 secs, home for about 15) and telling it to setup as a new iPod when it's done restoring (It *****, I know) instead of restoring from a backup can generally fix it, as backups seem to carry over glitches sometimes. Sorry about the restoring and whatnot (They are a real pain, I've had to do it 10 or 11 times before).
Now, if that's not it, it could be that the iPod just can't take that many songs and such. Maybe try eliminating the stuff you don't really listen to that much, the apps that you don't really need, etc. etc.... basically just cut back on the stuff piled onto the iPod.
If neither of those work though, only thing I can think of is a hardware problem, in which case send it in to Apple. I don't particularly like any of those solutions, just my thoughts. Here's hoping that somebody has a better alternative to both...

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