I bought a new 4g ipod (20 gigger) recently and have been very pleased with my purchase. My only real complaint is iTunes. I didn't like having to use it and have been looking for a good alternative for it, and I think I found it!
ml_ipod - It's a Winamp plug-in that has full playlist support, allows you to copy songs to/from your ipod, and many more features.
I haven't played with it for very long, but from what I've seen so far, this will be my replacement for iTunes.
I hope this will help free some of you who are not happy with iTunes!
-k1ng