Thank you for reading this. Ever since re-ripping my cataloge at lossless, I regularly experience synching problems with my 5th Gen 30gig iPod. Increasingly, I get that frustrating error message about my iPod not being writeable as soon as I attempt to synch. I then have to "restore" my original settings. That'll work for several synchs until it gives me that error message again. Do any other lossless users see a problem with this? If so, do you have any ideas/suggestions? Thank you.