An iPod is not safe in this house. First, Marcus zapped his with a bad firewire port. Mine had a badly designed firewire connector that detached from the motherboard, but somebody soldered it back on for me. Marcus got a 2nd one that last awhile, but started acting wonky. He decided to new video iPod and gave me his old one. Well, the one he gave me is broken again. Must not have been a hard drive problem. *sigh* I guess I didn't need an iPod anyway.