Is My Hard drive busted?

Hi every 1
I currently have a 4g 20gb ipod that is going crazy it turns on and connects to my pc and itunes but when i try to play music i have transfered over allmost every time it compleatly freezes and trys to play the next song then freezes again and so on and so fourth sometimes it will play only for like 10 secs...however it will play is Lose yourself in full occasionaly...Is my hard drive busted or is my ipod an eminem fan?????
any information would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
menphus

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My MacBook Pro (late 2010, 13", 250GB/4GB Ram) lost access to mail, then iChat, then address book. Each time I tried to access the mail program or chat, it would crash. Fixed and verified permissions, cleaned out cookies, ran disk utility to clean up the disk, but no help. I took it to the Genius bar, their best guess was to erase and reinstall. I hesitated to do that for a couple of months... the machine ran fine except for those programs. I run graphic intensive programs like Adode CS5 with no problems, but the native programs were busted.
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