There is sometimes a repair, for instance:

[link]

5th gen also gets a repair for the clicky:

[link]

I might be willing to give reseating the hard drive a crack for you if you could stand the wait and the postage.

If you have somebody closer or pro in mind, by all means.

Let me see what the Genius says on Sunday. Plus, I hit the airport next Wednesday and would really like to bring my tunes with me. We will see what happens.

eta - THANKS so much for your suggestions, links, and willingness to help.

Sounds like a plan. A good Genius should be able to do it in a jiffy.

bonny, there's a sent folder in thunderbird. are you using pop or imap?

Daniel, you seem always to save me.

I will try to get the hard drive out and let you at it. If it's fun for you, it's fine with me!

le nub...It's weird. I've yet to take Daniel's advice on the computer for which this is an issue, but I did find the 'make new folder' option he recommended.

The thing that flummoxes me is that I'm pretty sure that there used to be a sent folder...but it disappeared. While I know every dweeby screw-up says this...I SWEAR I didn't do anything to it!

eta: pop. I am pointing a verizon, a gmail and a onebox address at thunderbird. All are pops I think.

Suzi, have you tried giving your iPod a good thwack? I kept my alive for about six months with the thwack and reboot scheme, until the touch pad finally died. It won't last forever, but it might keep you going until you can get a new one.

I have many, many transformer blocks. They are all the same voltage. They are all made by no-name companies in China. In the course of the Great Office Reorganization of Aught Eight, I've lost track of which was which. Does it matter? Also, why the hell isn't there a universal transformer with lots of outputs, so we could plug all this crap into the same transformer? Is it a Chinese plot?

I have a large collection. Mainly because the all seem to be different amperges and ends on them, and some are reversed polarity.