My ipod died at the same time as the external Lacie HD w/ itunes library...

I have a 30GB video iPod that is just over a year old (barely out of warranty with no applecare!), and I haven't had any trouble with it until about a week ago. I believe it was right after I downloaded the update for my itunes and/ or ipod updating software from Apple. Anyway, suddenly my ipod froze up and when I trying restarting it manually (via the combination of holding down buttons), it gave me an error message that I needed to restore... so I did... like 5 times... and the first time, it froze my iMac and I had to manually restart the computer. The ipod didn't like that, and had me restore 3 or 4 more times. Now it has stopped asking to restore each time I connect it to my iMac but when I play it on its own, the songs freeze and skip, and it is REALLY slow to move between songs/ pause/ play, etc. I'll try restoring it again but I really think that it might be the end of the iPod.
On a separate but possibly related note (and here's my question, sorry for the length), the Lacie (d2 160GB) external hard drive I had my itunes library on has also just crashed. My iMac now tells me it can't read the drive, and do I want to: format, ignore or eject it? While I have downloaded Pro Soft's Data Rescue II, and it seems like it can save all my files (and lucky, everything but music has been backed up to DVD as well), I'm wondering if this could be related to the ipod crash or just coincidence?
I never thought it was a good idea to have my itunes library on an external drive (it's like 40GB big), but an Apple tech recommended it to me when my old computer was running out of space. The only music I've been downloading is from the itunes store, and there shouldn't be anything else that would be corrupt or mess both of these up. I'm just trying to look for possible corrollations?
iMac   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

I guess it was just coincidence?

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