Ipod wont restore says uknown error 1418 [[HELP NEEDED]]

my ipod use to work then it stopped working one day
then i got it to work again somehow.
now it wont work again
i need help please. i have tried everything and done everything to try to fix my problem.
I'm in need of a genious

Yesterday I was getting the blinking green/amber lights with my shuffle (512Mb).
After I couldn't get it to reset (with 5 sec. on/off) I plugged it into the computer. Saw that iTunes 6.x wouldn't see it and tried to run the updater. No luck.
Figured it was as good a time as any to update to iTunes 7. Still no luck. It sees the iPod but says it needs to be restored. When I try, I get the error 1418.
So, I figured I'd attempt to see if I can find out what's going on. I boot up a Linux live CD and take a look at the drive partition tables. (Figuring I may just reformat the thing and either fix it, or at least end up with a 512Mb flash drive).
gParted sees the device (interestingly as 1019.75Mb - wondering if they all were the same, but just partitioned differently).
When I try to repartition, it fails when attempting to assign a drive label.
I then plugged an old 128Mb flash drive into another usb port and attempted to do a brute force copy:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
where /dev/sda was the 128Mb drive and /dev/sdb was the shuffle.
It failed with an Input/Output error at 0 bytes.
I found some others who seem to have had the same problem (drive just going bad out of nowhere) when I googled for "repartition ipod shuffle" (no quotes). Seems the flash drive can just go bad just sitting there. I'll keep trying, but I don't have my hopes up.
The new shuffle looks nice, but I can't say this leaves me very impressed. Mine was only about 15 months old (of course past warranty) and pretty gently used.
Shuffle 512   Windows XP Pro  

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