To be honest with you, I do not use an iPod much. My wife has a hard drive Mini that she has never had a problem with - using it with a Macintosh for music and as a portable hard drive.
We do use iTunes and a set of Bose computer speakers and a Harmon Kardon subwoofer as our home stereo now.
So, I am afraid I cannot be of any help to you nor can I really comment intelligently on your issue. I just know I have made a ton of money on AAPl since the spring of 2003.
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