TV Shows will not play on 5G iPod

I just bought a 5G 30GB iPod yesterday after my 2G was stolen (so I am a relatively experineced user). I have been able to update my old music and everything seems to be working fine except for playing TV Shows. I have dowloaded an episode of Lost and although it plays on iTunes I only see the menu screen when i try to play the episode on my iPod. It looks like I am playing a song, but the clock never starts moving. I have tried changing the various settings under the Video Settings Menu with no luck. I am able to watch and hear Music Videos.
iTunes and QuickTime are up to date.
Thanks for your help.

I was able to downgrade my iPod software to 11/17/2005 (1.0) and had the same problem. I then upgraded again to 1.1.1, same problem. I then RELOADED, which erased everything, took me all night for iTunes to reload 9000+ songs and a dozen movies to my iPod 60gb, and I still have the problem.
I have been using the same software (Videora) to create my movies, and I've only been seeing the problem recently with new conversions (I have/still use the exact same Videora parameters) I'm beginning to suspect there is either a boundary problem in the iPod (gets up to a certain size/address and starts having problems) or a subtle bug in Videora, but I don't really suspect Videora because others who have reported this problem have been using a variety of software to create (or buy) the videos they have downloaded.
Apple, what is your problem ? Will you acknowledge this bug (or any bug for that matter)? When will we see a fix?

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