I got home and tried it, with positive results.
I performed a restore with the Windows Software Updater 1.2. During the restore, I disconnected/reconnected the iPod, as is required. When the restore was finished, I loaded MJ, after installing the 4:20 version of the plugin (I
love that name!).
Things looked great! The contacts/calendars folders were gone and the Artists, Albums, etc were there. I queued up a song and started transfer.
This resulted in a weird error. I explored the iPod_control folder, and noticed that the only thing in it was a subfolder called \Device,
which contained two files, "Preferences" and "sysinfo". I manually created \iPod_Control\Music\F00 and tried again. Success!
Transfer speed was around 100mb/minute.
All files were transferred to \F00. All subdirectory items in the MJ tree (Artists, Albums, etc) were populated correctly at the end of the transfer. Although one of the things I transferred was a playlist (I right-clicked a playlist and selected "Send To > Device - I:"), the Playlists item in the tree was not populated.
I unmounted my iPod and disconnected it. The first thing to show was the language selection screen, which is to be expected since I just restored it. The About screen lists 0 songs. I plugged my iPod back in and explored the iPod_control folder.
Its contents and
the contents of the \device subfolder were the same as before.
I started MJ again and clicked on my I: drive. Even with "Show queued files only" disabled,
MJ lists zero songs on my iPod. I queued up a song that I
hadn't transferred before, and it uploaded just like mentioned above. I queued up a song that I
had transferred before, but no longer showed on the iPod via MJ's interface, and
received an abort error message , saying the file already existed.
Then, I right-clicked the handheld and selected "Reset iPod." Confirming the warning, it deleted the one song that I had uploaded this session from MJ's interface. I checked the \F00 directory and that song was gone. MJ's interface now showed no songs. However, all of the songs that I had uploaded in the previous session were still in the \F00 directory. No other changes were made to any files or folders in \iPod_control.
Stellar progress, dude! Cheers!
Media Jukebox 8.0.388
Install Path: C:\Program Files\J River\Media Jukebox\
CPU: Intel Pentium III 931 MHz MMX
Memory: Total - 1048 MB, Free - 534 MB
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106
ComCtl32.dll: 6.00.2800.1106
Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1106
wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layeredit: Adam, download this and extract this to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes.