heya... i've had my ipod since..erm..may, and up til this week it has been working perfectly etc..

a few days ago i was trying to help my friend put his music on his ipod using my computer, and then problems started

his ipod made my 'pooter reboot a lot and it had some other problems and in the end we gave up..
now, however, i am suffering too ;-/

shortly after i started using mine again, my ipod started going into 'disk mode' with a flashing folder w/ exclamation mark icon.. eventually after restoring it a b'jillion times it worked again..

now however, i get loads of 'invalid directory' errors for my tracks when synching with ephpod, it reboots my computer a lot, and my ipod has apparently got like 8gb used up when there's only 6gb according to the ipod, is it possible that there are some half-done tracks hidden on the ipod that are using up space?

what should i do? restore ipod? reinstall ephpod and everything else?

thanks in advance... sorry if that's rather incoherant ;-/