Sluggish ipod

My ipod is being a little b*tch. lol. She's running extremely slow. She even got the folder with the explanation point with www.apple/ipod/support too. She is able to go into disk mode but when I try to scroll down she's slow as ****. I've already dumped off a bunch of songs. She has 3388 songs (MP3s), she's used up 18.5 GB with 3.4 GB left. I've charged her, updated her and she's okay for now. The only option I have other than NOT USE HER AS MUCH is to dump off more songs and or restore her.
any thoughts anyone? thanks a bunch
cOOkiEE needs help. she's sick and wants to go fast again.

Yeah, I've been having the same problem as well. I have a 160 gig classic with the newest update, and it's about 85% full with mostly music, and some videos. The iPod will stall in the middle of songs. Sometimes more frequent than others. It will also stall several times during movies as well. I'm not sure what gives. I've wiped the drive and reformatted, and it helped, but now it's worse than it has ever been. My iPod video and 3rd gen. never had this issue.

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