ipod file system is now RAW [needs massive amount of help]

I am not completely sure how this happened. I was transfering a video onto my ipod when windows displays the "delay write file" error, and tells me that the artwork directory is corrupt or unreadable on my ipod and that i should run checkdisk. Once checkdisk concluded the report said that there were errors but because i didn't run chkdsk with the /f parameter the errors were fixed. So I ran chkdsk twice more, once with /f and once with /r, and no more errors were found. At the conclusion of that there was no firmware on my ipod (and even though the updater said i had version 1.1 on there, there was no GUI.) so I tried to update the firmware with the 6/28/06 firmware and received the failure to write error. So I ran chkdsk again and the file system had changed from FAT32 to RAW. So I once again ran the updater and now 50% of the time I receive the "mulitpul applications are using the ipod" error and the other 50% of the time I get the "failure to write" error.

I have also tried formating the filesystem back to FAT32 using windows with my ipod both in and out of disk mode. None of these efforts have worked.

I am now looking at a very sleek, $300 paper weight. Any advice to remedy this would be amazing.