"Other" taking up 1 gig of space!

As you know the catigories for memory are-
-Audio
-Photos
-Other
This "Other" is taking up too much space and I'm not happy about it. I don't know what's in other or what I'm stuffing it with but, I know that this is bad. Please help!
iPod nano 1st generation 4 gigabytes Mac OS X (10.4.9) finder says it's empty

If there's nothing on the iPod which you want to keep that isn't in your computer, use the instructions in this article to restore the iPod, and then transfer the music, videos, and other files back to it.
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