Try changing the drive letter of the iPod, which is documented within this Apple Document. I recently added a Network Attached Storage device to my network and assigned new drive letters that conflicted with the iPod.
To get rid of the pesky ._{filename} attributes being added to tar archives on Leopard, simply: export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true
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