Itunes freezes and ipod times out while syncing with windows 7

i have all my drivers and software up to date. i have tried just about everything i can find on the forums but nothing has helped at all.
my laptop is windows 7 64 bit and is brand new. my ipod is an ipod classic 80gb and 5-7 years old now. music, podcasts, photos and tv programs all sync fine but when i try adding files which go under film i start getting problems. all the files i want i had on my ipod while using my old laptop so they should all go on fine but most of the videos now start syncing but then the bar stops and either itunes freezes for ages then closes down or i get an error message (error 50) and then itunes closes down anyway. this is really annoying and i have no ideas left. please please please can someone help me

have since tried on other computers and all now have the same problem. some with vista as well. this problem has now spred to all my computers preventing me from syncing my ipod at all

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