My songs wont update to my ipod?

When I try to update songs onto my ipod, it gives me some message like "Attempting to copy to the disk has failed. The disk could not be read from or written to.", yet i have no disk in my drives.
I have tried restoring my ipod, but that hasn't helped. I have taken the shuffle out and put it back, as have I moved the cord to vaarious ports. Nothing to far has worked, so I'm asuming that it has to do with the message.
Also, when the songs are done being updated, if they make it that far before the message pops up, a little gray dot is between the song number and the title on itunes. Im concerned that these dots should not be here.
Is there anything I can do?

Have you had a chance to look at this troubleshooting document? It may be of some help: "Disk cannot be read from or written to" when syncing iPod

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