ITunes reports 14G of videos on iPod containing no videos

Basically I was having "issue" with my 5G 80G iPod - in that it was reporting 477 videos under the About Menu, so I did a full reset and restore.
Even thou I had iTunes set to copy no video content whatsoever - no podcast, no music video, no TV & no Movies I still have 477 videos listed under "About" on the iPod and iTunes reports that I'm currently using up 14.8G of space for video. Looking on the iPod or iTunes shows no videos at all.
I would have figured that a complete restore (which takes several hours for an 80G) would have fixed this problem, but apparently not.
Every time I sync I also get error messages about videos that "cannot be played" even though I'm not trying to sync any videos.
Does anybody know how to fix this? Or even what's going on?

OK - there is definitely video crud on this (relatively new) iPod - I opened up Terminal and and a quick look randomly found a Rocketboom episode from November 2006 (remember that this is a freshly restored iPod!) - so I'm now wondering exactly how long this is been screwy for?
Um. How do I fix this? What's more drastic than a restore? (Disk Utility?)
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