Ipod batteries are now replaceable due to lawsuits filed by people who (rightly) felt it was rediculous to pay $200 for something they'd have to replace over a battery issue.

Anyway, we have 2 30gb video ipods, 1 20 gb photo ipod, and a 2gb ipod mini. I'm buying a 4gb ipod nano for the youngest kid for Christmas. The ipods work great for us. The Apple software does take a little getting used to, but you can still drag and drop to put it into your Ipod.

You can also drag and drop from any music page you have like windows media, or music match and drop it into your itunes library and it will convert it into the apple format.

If you like to do sweepstakes like I do, most music prizes are for free itunes. (I've won over 200) the bad thing is, if another member of your family has a different kind of mp3 player, and you want to take a song from itunes and put it into their mp3 player, the only way I've figured out how to do that is to burn the song onto a cd, and them put it in the other music software.

I love my video ipod, and have had others before. If you do buy an ipod do it through aplles online store if you or your kids have anything to do with education they give you a 10% discount. It saved me 30 bucks on my ipod.