Vista will not sync with ipod

I have recently upgraded to vista and have downloaded Itunes 7.1. I have also updated my ipod to 1.2.1 but itunes refuses to sync with with the ipod. The following error message appears. Attempting to copy to disk "JACK'S IPOD" failed. You do not have enough access privilges for this operation. iTunes could not save to your music folder because you do not have write access. Check the permissions on your music folder and folders in your music folder, the try copying this folder again.

I was able to figure out this problem.
That error message regarding access privileges has nothing to do with what the actual problem is. I've reported this to Apple Support and hopefully, they will change the error message to something more meaningful.
In my case, I originally had a Dell laptop running Windows XP. It crashed, but I was able to salvage the hard drive. I bought this Sony with Windows Vista on it and recovered my iTunes Music folder and restored iTunes with all my music as it looked originally on the Dell running XP.
Even though my playlist was setup correctly, the problem turned out to be that I had stored some of my files in the My Music folder on my Dell. The path to that in Windows XP is \Documents and Settings\User\My Music. In Vista, Documents and Settings has been changed to just Users.
So, what this turned out to be was that it had nothing to do with write privileges on the iPod, it's that iTunes simply couldn't find some of the music listed in my Playlist.
To resolve it, I deleted the entries in the Playlist that were pointing to Documents and Settings and added them again from the new music folder in Vista.
Since doing this, I can now sync my iPod with no issues whatsoever.
I hope this helps anyone else having this problem.

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