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Every single time I connect my ipod, it keeps saying: "iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode. You must restore this iPod before it can be used with iTunes."

I've restored this thing countless times already. I got it to work twice and in the middle of syncing the songs/videos, it would stop and say there was some problem reading the iPod. Then I had to restore it. AGAIN. It is still not working for me. Is it repairable at home or should I ultimately take it to an Apple certified technician (my last option--don't want to waste (gas and fixing) money and a long trip to the Apple store.) Please help.