IPod will not update AT ALL

I have owned this iPod Shuffle for about seven months, and it worked perfectly fine until about a month or two ago when it would not let me change the songs on the iPod. I manually deleted all the songs off of the iPod in iTunes, and added a whole new set, but when I put on the headphones, the original music was all still on the iPod, despite it saying that music had been deleted and added. I lived with it for a while, but now the music is getting extremely boring, as I am constantly adding more tracks to iTunes, which I can ONLY listen to on it or by making CDs. No point in having an iPod if I can get better variety from a CD player. So I used the Restore command, but it did not change anything except apparently clean the songs off the iPod (they could still be on there, I'm about to check), either way I still cannot add anything to the iPod.
More to the point, whenever I try to update the iPod in any way (add music, change the preferences, etc.) it says that it is Updating and then after about a minute and a half it gives this message:
The iPod "Owner's iPod" cannot be updated. The disk could not be read from or written to.
The amount of memory does not change: Used: 300 KB, Free: 489.5 MB. Which is the factory settings I assume.
Pentium(R) 4 Windows XP

Update: I tried the iPod out and I now get the flashing green orange lights when I press play that I have seen so much about on this forum.

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