I had some problems with Ephpod and Musicmatch (see my threads on the Ephpod and Musicmatch forums) on my 30 GB iPod, so I'm giving Media Center 9 a try. Unfortunately, I'm getting a problems here as well.

Following Adam's instructions (posted on this forum) about restoring and formatting the iPod, removing programs and all his other steps, I got the first synch to work fine. Then I synched the iPod again with some smartlists and some new songs I added to the library, and again the iPod worked fine.

The third time I tried a synch, however, Music Center couldn't hook up with the iPod. An F: shows up under devices, but when I click on it, an error message comes up saying that there's no plug in for a "PO" (?). When I right click, Music Center breaks down and I have to end the program. On other attempts, I get an error message that it can't read F: and the only mesage is a funny symbol like "}" in the error message box.

I restored, reformatted and synched from scratch "all music" and a couple smartlists I put together. I got some error messages for some songs (which play fine when I play them on the computer). Now there's a blank line " >" on the playlists menu of my iPod (which I have seen before with Ephpod, usu followed by message of corrupt itunesDB on Ephpod) and while all track names and artist names appear on the iPod, none of them play - the iPod just cycles through song after song as if it finds no music and moves on to the next track.

Am I doing something wrong here?