Syncing problem and battery

My 1st gen shuffle has been waxing and waning on length of play. It is less than a year old and used infrequently. I recently recharged the thing to full charge. I cannot play a song on my external player. When I sync to my pc I get the follow error "The iPod xxxx cannot be synced. The disk could not be read from or written to." (I love those dangling participles). Also, when I push play on the the shuffle I have blinking orange and green dots. Any ideas?
PC   Windows XP  

My 1st gen shuffle has been waxing and waning on
length of play. It is less than a year old and used
infrequently. I recently recharged the thing to full
charge. I cannot play a song on my external player.
When I sync to my pc I get the follow error "The iPod
xxxx cannot be synced. The disk could not be read
from or written to." (I love those dangling
participles). Also, when I push play on the the
shuffle I have blinking orange and green dots. Any
ideas?
PC Windows
XP
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