Suddenly slow song transfer to iPod

This appeared fairly suddenly, without any other symptoms; no hard disk noises or freezes or icons on the iPod screen, which are often signs of failing HD.
But now my iPod mini Blue (4G, first gen.) is very slow transferring songs from iTunes 6.0.4 to the iPod, using drag-and-drop from Library window in iTunes. Seems like USB 1.1 speeds - i.e. about same speed as transferring songs onto my Rokr cell phone: e.g., about 1 minute per 4MB song.
I also checked data transfers, using iPod as FW or USB2 hard disk, and the transfer speeds are about the same - so it's not just an iTunes thing.
Slow speeds using either FW or USB2 cables; have also tried different cables, so it's not that.
The iPod works fine: playback is good, no skipping; above all, no grinding or other problematic HD sounds. Battery lasts about 4-5 hours in normal use.
Any idea what it can be?
Tried solutions: I reformatted the HD with Disk Utility. Reformatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), with no OS 9 drivers.
I then used the latest iPod updater to update the iPod.
I also tried to use DiskWarrior 3.0.3 to optimize the HD: when I graphed the iPod HD, DW showed about 50% out of order and needing optimization. But even after optimizing and replacing directory, there was no change in transfer speed.
Any help or advice appreciated.

Are you USB ports only 1.1 or do you have USB2 (high speed) USB ports?
If you like math, here is a previous post of mine on the subject of USB 1.1 transfer speeds with the iPod...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2769205&#2769205
USB1.1 is a top speed of 12 Mbps while USB2 is up to 480 Mbps, so if you have USB2 ports, just do the same math with that number.
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