UNUSUAL error messge w/ manually synced iPod

I have an unusual problem that I have never encountered before when playing my music through iTunes off my manually synced 80G iPod.
an error comes up every time i change the song and it says "The iPod 'K-Bills' i-Pod' cannot be synced. There are too many files open currently."
it pops up EVERY TIME a song changes automatically or when i change the song....and it won't stop...its annoying and i was wondering if anyone has any solutions or possible ways of fixing this?

Thank you! IATechGuy's post worked. I was digging through that thread for a while before posting here and gave up too soon I guess.

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