Ipod touch will not sync PLAESE HELP!!!!

Question

I have pretty much exhausted all resources for help. We bought an ipod touch 32GB for my son for Christmas. I have had nothing but problems with this thing from the start. I have spent endless hours on the phone with apple tech doing EVERYTHING from updating drivers to uninstalling itunes and all of it's componentsand reinstalling itunes.
Every time I connect the ipod to the computer, it will recognize it is there and start to sync. about half way through the sync, the message "The ipod cannot be synced. The disk could not be read from or written to." will appear. I can sync my ipod classic with no problems. I took the touch to my brothers house and synced it with no problem but once I hook it back to my computer and then disconnect it, it says there is no content (i.e music) in the ipod even though it still is showing in the library for the ipod.
PLEASE HELP, short of buying a new computer, I am at a total loss here.

Answer 1

I have been having a similar problem with my 32GB iTouch as well. Once it's up and running (2 seperate trips to the Apple store), it will sync just fine with iTunes. If I have to restore it (i.e. software update), it will just sit in restore mode until it errors out or I stop the process. I installed iTunes on my laptop and it seems to restore just fine...once that is accomplished, I can sync it with the primary computer.
I've tried turning off windows firewall (even though there is an exception for iTunes already in there) but that didn't make a difference. I've tried uninstalling iTunes and reinstalling it, no difference. Basically I've got it boiled down to some program on my computer is causing the process from completeing. I'm to the point now where I'm just gonna to do a fresh back up of my hard drive on an external one and reinstall my OS. I'm not sure if that will make a difference or not because I'm running XP on my laptop and everything works as advertised. But if I can't figure out what other rogue program is preventing my restore, I'm afraid a fresh load is the only solution.
If anybody else has some suggestions, I'd love to hear them! In particular, if there are any known programs that interfere with iTunes (drivers, software, web browsers, anything!)
Thanks!