The iPod "Mitchell's iPod" cannot be updated

I had a 60Gb iPod photo for a couple of years. Once my iTunes music library got over 60Gb I had continuous problems syncing but I also increasingly got the sad icon so I think it was an underlying iPod hardware problem.
So I bought a new iPod 80Gb 5th Gen. I have iTunes 7.1 loaded on a Windows XP machine. When I first connected the iPod it loaded about 5 Gb before I got an error message <<The iPod "Mitchell's iPod" cannot be update. The required file cannot be found>>.
Over the course of 2 whole days I would load iTunes plug in the iPod, it would sync some songs then eventually fail with the above error message.... then I would repeat the same exercise. I am now up to 31Gb but now it fails immediately so I cannot add any more songs.
Does any of this sound familiar to anyone. This is a brand new iPod, fresh out of the box, fully charged.
thanks, Mitchell
Mesh PC, Pentium4, 2.80 Ghz, 500Mb RAM   Windows XP   iTunes 7.0.1.8
Mesh PC, Pentium4, 2.80 Ghz, 500Mb RAM    

Uninstalled and re-installed iTunes. Connected iPod and it started syncing again. Went up from 37.91Gb to 44.14Gb on iPod then failed again with message <<Attempting to copy to the disk "MITCHELL's" failed. The disk could not be read from or written to>>

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