Sync failures / songs cut off?!

Bought it used (I KNOW...) sometimes sync fails saying something about 'required file missing, Restore your Ipod, try again'. Does this about every 3-4 syncs.
Playing music in shuffle mode, cut off middle of song, starts the next on. Does this maybe every 20-25 songs. Also shufle seems to have a favorite band. it is shuffling, burt it will play 5-6 in a row from the same artist, then something else, back to original artist, even though they only acount for about 10% of the music. weird huh?
Hard drive seems to make a fair amount of noise when it is looking for the next some and when it cuts one off.
Tried the 3 Rs.
forced to disk mode, synced OK, but still having play / shuffle issues.
Are there any diagnostics to run that will shed some light?
- Tim-A

oh forgot to mention- for me the songs are cut off both on my Ipod as well as on my computer, which makes it a really annoying glitch. For my friend it happens only on his ipod.

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