Used 6th Gen (80GB) Classic stops syncing at about 13GB mark - Fix suggestions?

Hi all, hoping someone can help me out.
I recently purchased a used iPod Classic 6th gen on eBay, and everything seemed to work great. However, as the title says, once the iPod has about 13GB of songs on it (12.8 to be exact), songs begin to take EXTREMELY long to sync and then just stop altogether. I did a lot of reading before posting here and I have looked at the HDSMART data to see if it was a blatant hard drive issue, and those stats all look fine. I reformatted the iPod through Disk Utility on my Mac and according to the Super iPod fix, but to no avail. I restored it on iTunes, same issue. I also tried breaking up the amount that's being synced at once, and that doesn't change it either - once it hits that mark, the issues start.
And for good measure, I made an exception for the iPod when it comes to on-access scanning on my anti-virus, because I read that might be the case. Nothing changes.
The iPod is an 80GB, model A1238. It has firmware 1.1.2 running.
Here's the SMART data for those of you interested. Maybe you can see something I've overlooked.
Retracts: 10
Reallocs: 72
Pending Sectors: 0
PowerOn Hours: 22
Start/Stops: 72
Temp: Current 24C
Temp: Min 15C
Temp: Max 48C
I can return the iPod, I just really don't feel like it since I've been looking forward to owning one and I don't want to have to wait another week. Hopefully someone has an answer aside from it being a hard drive issue.
Thanks for any and all responses!

Just wanted to give you guys an update: my iPod now works again fully, without having reformatted it, as Apple suggested.
I was reading some other posts around here, and decided to try something before going for the ultimate/decimating solution: redownloaded iTunes and reinstalled it. Install of checking for updates, I just went to Apple's site, and downloaded the whole thing. Plugged in my iPod, and now it all works! All the songs that wouldn't play before are now working just fine, as before.
Seems to me there's something funky on iTunes 7.5 for Windows or the upgrade process, which wasn't there in previous versions.
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