New mac, Old IPod, uknown error (-54)

Hey guys,
I bought a macbook the other day and i've seemed to successfully transfer all my music files from my old PC to the mac and now I'm trying to sync my IPod to itunes but after about 930 songs transfer an "unknown error (-54) occurs" and the transferring stops.
I tried restoring the IPod but it didn't work. The same problem occurs.
Any suggestions?

Just wanted to say that I solved my error -54 problem -- thanks to the user who suggested it was corrupted files.
I decided to sync my library in chunks, alphabetically, and then I looked a little bit more closely at the files surrounding the spot where the error message came up and transfer stopped. I found a "locked" file ("Get info" > the check box for "lock" was selected). After unchecking the box, the files transferred with no problem (I had two locked files within my 4100).
Hope that's helpful to anyone else with an error -54 message!
-Meg

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