Itunes music videos won't sync to ipod

Hi, I hope someone can help me. I have been trying to resolve this problem for a month. My daughter has a 5th generation video ipod. When she updated her ipod all of her music videos were erased from her ipod. They remain and play in itunes, but wont transfer to itunes. There is a message that states some files weren't transferred to ipod because they are not compatible, but they are and they used to be on the ipod. Once again files that used to play now won't transfer and are being labeled as incompatible. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. We are about to go on a trip and having her ipod work, would make it a much more relaxing trip for me... Thanks

After my computer freezes itunes says: Attempting to copy the disk "ipod name" failed. The disk could not be read from or written to. It also says: itunes could not copy "name of a song" to the ipod "ipod name" because the file could not be read or written. This is after it synced all but 100 of my 800 songs and all of my apps.

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Sounds like you need to get itunes updated so the videos will play on the PC.
Forget the Apple Software Update. Download itunes from this link
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
When the box pops up to run or save, choose SAVE and put the file where you can find it. Double-click on itunesSetup.exe and the install should run.

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I've just noticed that if I play a video in iTunes 6.0.2 it will then no longer sync with the iPod. iTunes says its not a compatible format.
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Which version of the firmware do you have on your iPod? Is it the latest (1.3), or earlier? I ask because of the information regarding Fairplay version 2 versus Fairplay version 3 on this website:
http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?t=231582
"1.3 firmware has bug fixes and also an updated bit of code to play anything from the iTunes store that has a fairplay version 3. Most stuff on iTunes has Fairplay version 2, but some more recent videos have version 3. If you arent' downloading a lot of DRM'd content from iTunes, it likely isn't critical, but there have been no major complaints about the 1.3 update. At least compared to other updates. for instance 1.2 WAS a shoddy update. They pulled it. 1.2.1 fixed it... But nothing much else added to 1.3 if you are having no problems currently and don't have any fairplay 3 items in your library."

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You buy 10 random song from the store... burn them to an audio CD... and then rip that CD as MP3s to now have unprotected music. Now you have a full library of MP3s rather than M4Ps. However iTunes does not replace the M4Ps because the Album/Track information does not match exactly... which leaves you to manually erase the protected music.
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Bug or intentional? Seems intentional doesn't it. Just seems to contradict where Apple was going with selling unprotected music. Or maybe... they are trying to get rid of any way to make your music unprotected... so you have to spend the extra $0.30 on each song. Interesting that this "problem" has been created with the same release of iTunes that allows you to buy more expensive, unprotected music.
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I'm not sure if I've posted this in the right "Community area"?? If I'm in the wrong area, please point me in the right direction.
I am getting this Error Message coming up on PC:
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