IPod will sync, but works slowly and eventually freezes

5th gen. black video ipod about 1.5 years old. use it daily, then one day i was shuffling and it froze. i reset using Menu & Center buttons, then got error message to restore w/ iTunes.
restored w/ iTunes, tried to use. worked slowly and eventually froze. reset again and it erased everything.
tried to restore again and it wouldn't sync.
downloaded newest iTunes and restored. went to play, shuffle worked slowly again (stall when i would skip songs), eventually froze. when i reset music wasn't erased, but still worked slowly.
received a tip about registering dll files or something. tried that...
tried restoring again. got the following error message:
"iTunes has detected an iPod that appears to be corrupted. You may need to restore this iPod before it can be used with iTunes. You may also try disconnecting and reconnecting the iPod."
tried to restore and got the following message:
"The iPod “iPod” cannot be restored because it contains files that are in use by another application."
no idea what to do now. is my iPod broken?

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