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Originally Posted by poohjlv  It seems logical that all of the iPod's rebooting, due to the software, would cause it to damage the hardware. |
I gotta agree with Fryke here -- what you are basically saying is akin to someone telling you to walk across the room to the other side... and on your way, you trip over your own feet and fall and break your leg, then blame your broken leg on the person who told you to walk across the room.
It sounds very likely that your iPod was on the verge of death, possibly, and that a simple update or restart caused that problem to manifest itself right then and there. I highly doubt that iTunes 7 itself caused the iPod to become broken -- if the iPod needed to be restarted due to an update, and the restart itself caused the iPod to break, then the hardware was already on its way out... the software isn't responsible for this.
I do think that keeping the iPod connected to the computer for two straight weeks was probably a bad idea -- the iPod is not meant to have the hard drive run for that length of time, and that could very well cause it to fail. Whether or not it's the fault of iTunes 7 is up for debate -- I would tend to think waiting two weeks with a non-working iPod to seek help is a bit extreme.