Recording in mono instead of stereo

I am an elementary teacher creating student podcasts. We've had no problem until today.
I have 4 5th generation video ipods that we use with TuneTalk stereo to record the pieces of our podcast. Suddenly one of my ipods will only record in mono. It downloads perfectly to iTune and everything sounds fine, but when I pull it into Garageband - it sounds like the chipmunks are visiting. My 4th graders think it's great - I don't!
I redownloaded - the voice memos - made sure I had synced it to the correct computer and the problem continued. I am syncing to a MacBook running 10.4.9. I made sure my iTunes and my iPod software are up to date. I am using iTunes 7.1.1
I have recently updated Quicktime to 7.1.6 and have been having some issues with the Q with the ? for podcasts using Safari. Would that bother my voice memos???
Any suggestions??
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.9)

What model of camcorder is your video coming from and what format and resolution is it?
If you're using video from a camcorder that shoots in 5.1 and your project is set up for stereo, you can end up with issues like this.

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Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:26:33 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: 5.1 sound instead of stereo
It should not be a problem, only optically, but you can try to just delete the 5.1 tracks.
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But you'll find it out, give yourself time to learn all the good possibilities for this A2zs win-soundcard.Message Edited by www_96KHz_tk on -7-2005 :3 AM

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