Need Help ASAP!! with iPod Classic 80GB

This is my first apple product and it is not giving a good impression. I need help eargently!
I Sync 2969 songs onto my ipod for first time 2 days ago using latest Itunes it worked great and i was happy just my ipod didnt have all the album art, so the next day i plugged it in and put all the album art to the correct albums which went fine, then i wanted to add another album. I clicked sync to update the library on my ipod and it started transfering at a sluggish speed simular to this 1....2....3....4....5....6 etc it eventually got to 196 out of 1248 and stopped and 2 mins later itunes crashed. so the only way i could remove my ipod was to pull it out without ejecting it i then tried to look for the songs and what do you know it said on my Ipod 0 Music..... I was gob smacked i put it back in, in hope for it to sync again but ever since then it continues to do that, but i can manually transfer max 4 albums by drag and drop, at a time before itunes crashes. I am seriously going to throw it in the bin soon if i cant get it working and i will never ever buy an apple product again, i love the idea of the iPod but there to faffy! compared to a standard MP3 player..
PLEASE HELP ME i have tried restoring it many times, ive tried resetting it holding menu button and select button. and i have also tried another way were you restard the ipod and during the apple logo you quickly hold play which formats it..
please help me!! apples help lines are useless!

You do understand that this is a user-to-user forum? That we're all volunteers? And this is a weekend? You may need to be a bit more patient.
If I had an answer I would be happy to try to help. When you say you've tried "restoring" it, do you mean that you've hooked it up to your computer and pressed the "Restore" button in iTunes? If not, that's the next thing you should try.
I know you've tried a few things but it wouldn't hurt to go through the standard trouble shooting steps:
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/
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Hi, hope u could help me.
Excuse my not fluent english, I'm not british/american so I will try to make myself as clear as possible. Thanks
First of all, got iPod classic 80gb, systems Vista/XP, was trying to cope with this problem on both computers, but ran out of ideas, so decided to make a topic on Apple forum.
Few days ago my iPod was working fine, then I put some stuff on it (put them in 'Notes', using iPod as a pendrive) and weird things started to happen. Maybe it has something to do with it, don't know, but will try to write as many details as possible.
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