Sound suddenly stopped

I was listening to my iPod 5th generation (30gb, video) a few days ago when the sound suddenly stopped. The controls continued to work, as did the display, but no sound came through the headphones. I tried other headphones, and still nothing. I followed the "5 R's", and it still didn't work. I ensured that I have the latest edition of iTunes and software for my iPod, prior to restoring. And THEN, upon restoring, I tried to sync my iPod again to get all of my music back onto it, and after syncing a portion of the music, a dialog box appears in iTunes that says that it can't continue, and that an unknown error occurred. So now I have an iPod that won't sync properly AND won't play any sound. I've only had it about 8-9 months, and I'm really hoping somebody has some knowledge of these problems.
Thanks for reading and trying to help!

This is the closest I could find to what i am experiencing. I have a suspicion that several of my songs may have gotten corrupted but I don't know how or why and much less...how to prevent further corruption!!!
Here it goes...
All my songs work fine and have worked fine for over a year now. I recently updated itunes and it seems that this is when the problem appeared. (Unless it is a coincidence?) I have now counted six songs out of about 300 that suddenly stop either in the middle of the song or towards the end of the song. The music stops the timer stops but I am able to use the control to go to the next song or even to previous time frame within the same song that suddenly stopped. However when I go to an earlier part of the "stopped" song it can no longer be heard. I use these songs everyday and they were fine before Friday.
What has happened to these particular songs and why? but more to the point how do I fix the problem and how do I prevent it in the future??? Has anyone had this similar trouble?
Thank you!

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