Ipod classic 80 GB wouldnt allow me to loa...

I recently got a new ipod classic 80GB... i opened up itunes, plugged in the ipod and hit sync... it looked like it was starting to work... but then on the 16th song it stopped... i couldnt load any other songs or even remove the 16 songs that it placed on there.... so i tried to restore it to its factory settings... it says that it did this... then it automatically loads the ipod back into itunes after it restarts the ipod for the restore.. but now it wont even let me enter the name into the ipod... it just says it can not sync the ipod... please try restoring to factory setting.. but i just did this!!.. so i restore it to factory setting again.. and same result.. once it restarts it says cant sync ipod and that i should restore it...

sooo i restart my computer, open up itunes and now i cant even get my ipod to appear in itunes.. and when i goto "my computer" i can not access any information on the ipod i just receive the message "the file or directory is corrupted or unreadable."

i was looking around and noticed that someone mentioned that special characters like ' can cause problems.. there was an ' in the song name when the problem started.. but now i cant even get my ipod to appear in itunes so i cant test it....

anby ideas on how i might start correcting this?
thanks alot