Unmount your iPod before you reboot

It's probably good practice to unmount your iPod before rebooting your PC. Yesterday morning I forgot to unmount after installing a Windows XP OS patch. After the reboot the iPod went wonky and would no longer mount on three different PCs and two Macs. It still played music but would no longer synchronize. After numerous resets and running diagnostics I was ready to send it to Apple for repair. I gave it one last try and suddenly it sprung back to life. I'm relieved, of course, but I'm left puzzled as to how it fixed itself.

Update: Jeff forwarded a link on how to fix a hosed iPod with Linux.

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