[JoshD]

Curious if anyone else is still dealing with this. I've had mine for 6 months or so and randomly have this problem. The "trick" (usually) is to unplug, exit the ipod to the main menu, go to now playing, press play and then plug back in (the song should be playing, not paused). Sometimes this doesnt work and rather than going to now playing, I hit Shuffle Songs and plug in and for some reason that seems to do the trick. This only happens when first starting up, and even then its random (i'd say 20% of the time I have to play with it a bit to get it going). Once your going, it never loses the connection. Has to be something about the unit not knowing the current state of the ipod and sending the wrong message. FWIW, mine is an 80gig, half full.