"The disk could not be read from or written to" message. Please help!

I just got a 30 GB Ipod today. I was able to transfer about 60 songs using one of my USB ports before this message came up. I switched the plug into my other USB port, and I was able to transfer about 500 songs before the message came up again. Now the message comes up whenever I plug the Ipod into either USB. I've seen the page that Apple has written about this problem, http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301267,
but none of their suggestions seem to be fixing my problem. The only thing I can guess is that there might be a problem with the fact that my USB ports are not USB 2.0 (but then why was I able to transfer almost 600 songs?)
Can anyone help me? Thanks a lot.

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