New 160 GB iPod messes up videos!

OK. I recently had to buy a new computer because my old one was well...old. I updated from Compaq to HP which means I went from Windows XP to Windows 7. I still have a 30 GB iPod which plays my videos wonderfully. No problems at all. Then I bought a 160 GB and my videos transferred to the newest iTunes available and my videos played but they had glitches where there were no glitches before. Like as if bad weather hit the video but there was no bad weather, you know? It plays perfectly in my old iPod but not in my new and improved? iPod. This really is making me mad because it works perfectly in my old one and in my new one it doesn't! The quality of the picture in the new one is great but there's the glitches that happens in a lot of videos and plus some are slow in places where they're not in the other one. These aren't Apple-related videos they are ripped off of YouTube but they played like a dream in the old one and are MPEG4 videos which are supported by iPods. If this can't be fixed I'm thinking of just buying another 30GB but I don't know if Windows 7 and the newest version of iTunes supports it! I have more gigs of video on my iPod than music so I'm obviously just looking for the video quality here! Please help!

Have same problem which should not be a big deal. I have a 80g and recently upgraded to a 160g. How do I transfer content from the 80 to the 160? Am surprised this matter is not addresses in basic operational info. Would think Apple wants to this to happen and would facilitate the upgrading. I need to buy a 3rd party application?

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