Restoring a 30gig.

HEy everyone, here's my question to all of you. I im having trouble restoring my ipod. When i turn it on i get the message "Please connect to computer. Please restore with iTunes." in 4 different languages. This is fine, i eventually got it to read and completly restored my ipod. However i am now receiving the excat same message and then getting an error message about "downloading the software for the update" when i try to restore it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Same problem here, but I am restoring 211.73 GB. It has been going for about 36 hours and claims that it has 52 hours to go. Egad.
I've got the computer connected to the TC via ethernet and the restore is going into a USB 2.0-connected external drive, so the bottleneck should not be in the capacity of those connections. Nothing very CPU intensive is happening on the machine.
Is there some faster way to do this? I'd happily plug a USB drive right into the TC and copy the data off that way – is there some way to do that?

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