Problems with syncing, recognising iPod, thinking it's corrupted...

Hi, I've had this 30GB iPod photo of mine for a number of years now but for a long time it's been having problems with syncing. I've gotten an exciting variety of error messages when trying to sync with my iTunes, from my iPod software is out of date, by iPod is corrupted, to simply that my iPod will not sync for no adequately explained reason. Occasionally also Windows fails to recognise it. This was never too big of a problem because a few songs would transfer usually before it errored out on me, or I'd just unplug it, restart it and plug it in again and the few songs I wanted would go on. (I don't add giant chunks of new music to it that often) However just recently I discovered that about 300 songs were missing from it and I can't for the life of me get it to sync up again to put them back on. iTunes has been saying that An iPod has been plugged in but that it doesn't recognise it, or it'll start syncing and then say "Attempting to copy to disk "CASSIE'S IPOD" failed. The disk could not be read from or written to." Any help or advice? is my iPod just horribly corrupted in some way and beyond help except for expensive repairs and replacement? Or is this a software thing I can actually fix somehow?

I eventually called an Apple Repair person about my Ipod, who advised me that "it sounded quite serious" and all he would do if I brought it in for repair would be to replace it with another reconditioned unit which would cost me $195! This was a newly "reconditioned" unit that I had just bought, so unfortunately it ended up going back. I've just requested a refund this time because this is the 2nd time this has happened to me in a month! I'm starting to think I was never destined to own an operating Ipod! I think I'll look at a Sony or Creative MP3 Player as an alternate. They seem to have good reviews and they'll probably work first time round! I'm a bit tired of Apple now! There just seems to be too many things that can - and DO - go wrong!

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