ITunes kicking iPod classic out during syncing

Okay -- this is kind of weird, but I thought I'd give it a shot on this board. When I connect my iPod Classic to iTunes it automatically syncs, but then instead of saying it's okay to disconnect it "kicks" the iPod out of iTunes and the Apple logo shows up on the iPod. Then after a few seconds, it will automatically reconnect and then go through the syncing process again. At that point, it will let me eject it.
Is this a problem if this keeps happening? I can live with it, even though it's kind of annoying. Does anyone know why this would happen? I just upgraded by iPod software and wondered it it's a bug in either iTunes or the new iPod software. Will it damage my iPod to have this keep happening?
Thanks for any help you can give me.

I am still having the problem. I have noticed a pattern to the seemingly random freezes.
The iPod is stopping to Sync at almost predictable points during the sync. The first stoppage occurs around the 1.9GB part of the sync. This has not always been the same file but it is always around the same place.
When I sync in small chunks the freeze occurs at almost the same place every time. As soon as it freezes, iTunes is toast and the entire computer needs to be restarted.
Anyways, the freeze happens around every 2GB's of data transferred. It does not have to be in one chunk, it is almost like it is happening on the iPod. Like the iPod is kicking itself out of the sync at certain points along it's hard drive or something. Once it freezes and I restart the computer, I can transfer another 2 GB before it freezes again... then restart, repeat. Finally I was able to load up the 14.8 GB I had in my iTunes. Several hours later... not sure if I should take the iPod back or not. If it is the iPod and that fixes the problem great... but if it is my machine, I get another 3-4 hours syncing and restarting my computer. Wheeee!

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First off thanks to all the views and no replies, lots of help....... :sarcasm ended::
anyways, I went to the apple store and they told me the hard drive in the iPod was damaged. If you drop it one too many times, work out with it etc, it takes a tole on the iPod. The hard drive couldnt write the files being transferred through the sync.
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I'm having a very strange problem with my iPod. I tried to sync it yesterday, but itunes said there was a corrupted file on it, and that it needed to be restored. I allowed that, and the restore went through. As itunes began to put my songs back on the ipod, it would freeze within the first hundred songs or so. This keeps happening; the restore works, but the sync freezes it.
I've tried everything. I re-installed itunes on my Mac after deleting every instance of it, I erased the memory on the ipod, I tried putting it into disc mode, I even tried manually putting a few songs at a time on the ipod. All of these result in itunes or the sync process freezing in some way.
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It's possible that your iPod's hard drive has started to fail. Take your iPod and place your right thumb on the centre SELECT button and your left on the top MENU button. Press down both thumbs for about 6 seconds until your iPod reboots. Immediately move your left thumb around to the rewind button |<< on the left and hold this down together with SELECT for a further 6 seconds. Your iPod should now switch into Diagnostic Boot mode. Press MENU for *Manual Test*, then select *IO > HardDrive > HDSMARTData* to reveal your stats. For comparison here are mine for my 2 year old 6th Generation Classic:
Retracts: 889
Reallocs: 12
Pending Sectors: 0
PowerOn Hours: 2202
Start/Stops: 894
Temp: Current 24c
Temp: Min 10c
Temp: Max 50c
Take a note of your results. When finished press *SELECT & MENU* for 6 seconds to reset the iPod again.
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Note that I've only 12 remapped sectors and none pending. To help explain what the numbers mean here is an extract from the Wikipedia S.M.A.R.T. article:
*Reallocated Sectors Count*
Count of reallocated sectors. When the hard drive finds a read/write/verification error, it marks this sector as "reallocated" and transfers data to a special reserved area (spare area). This process is also known as remapping, and "reallocated" sectors are called remaps. This is why, on modern hard disks, "bad blocks" cannot be found while testing the surface – all bad blocks are hidden in reallocated sectors. However, as the number of reallocated sectors increases, the read/write speed tends to decrease. The raw value normally represents a count of the number of bad sectors that have been found and remapped. Thus, the higher the attribute value, the more sectors the drive has had to reallocate.
*Pending sector count*
Number of "unstable" sectors (waiting to be remapped, because of read errors). If an unstable sector is subsequently written or read successfully, this value is decreased and the sector is not remapped. Read errors on a sector will not remap the sector (since it might be readable later); instead, the drive firmware remembers that the sector needs to be remapped, and remaps it the next time it's written.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
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