Unknown error (-36), iPod mini thinks it's 'full' when it's only half-full!

Great site - I have discovered that lots of people have similar problems to me, but none are specifically the same as mine, hence I am posting a new topic. Sorry if this has appeared earlier........
This is driving me crazy. Last week I put a new album onto iTunes and when I connected my iPod mini (6GB), it wouldn't upload from iTunes to it. I thought it may be because my iPod was almost full up, so I deleted another album to make space for the new one. Still nothing happened. By now I knew I had space on the iPod, but the new album would still not go on. I figured I had to update my iPod, so I installed the latest update (1.4.1.) and the latest iTunes. Now, whenever I connect my iPod, it loads about half of my iTunes (it never stops at exactly the same place) onto my iPod, gets to about 2.9GB then flashes up one of 2 messages -
1. 'The disk cannot be read or written to', or
2. ' The iPod """ could not be written to. Unknown error (-36)
I have uninstalled the new updates, restored my iPod and re-installed the software that came in the box when I bought my iPod last May, in effect putting my iPod onto my PC for the very first time. But I am still having the same problems. This is very frustrating. Can you help?
Any solutions/help will be gratefully received.
Thanks in advance.
home built from an ancient packard bell   Windows XP Pro   iPod mini 6GB
home built from an ancient packard bell   Windows XP Pro  

Thanks for the reply.
I've been on this page already, but it doesn't really help me. I thought my problem would be a common one that was fairly easy to fix, but it's begining to like unlikely.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

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