  Well after much waiting... my repaired ipod should be arriving on Monday. I got it for my birthday nearly a month ago and it came with a severely defective hard drive. For those of you who are thinking of getting an ipod, I totally recommend it. Just DO NOT buy direct from Apple.
If something happens to be messed up with it, your only alternative is to ship it back to apple and then they will take their sweet time on getting it back to you. In my case they claim it took longer to get a replacement mailed back to be because it was a personalized ipod. They said it would take 9 days longer (and this is after 2.5 weeks already) to get shipped to me because it needed to get re personalized.
Which frankly is a load of bull, since I received my first (broken) ipod in my hands, personalized and all, in exactly two business days. In all fairness though, after a few weeks when my patience wore thin I complained to someone higher up and they "compensated" me with a complementary ipod accessory. So I should be getting a car charger too now. So the moral of the story. Buy and ipod. Don't buy direct from Apple. Unless you enjoy self inflicted pain. 
