Well, I don't know what I'm doing wrong then because my ipod is most definitely an iPod video, and from the Utility I select "Ipod Video (5th Gen) (Stable)"... Where else could I be making mistakes?
EDIT: I just remembered something. I haven't really used it much in the last few months, but a couple of weeks back I took it out of my drawer and tried to listen to one song. I looked for the artist in the database and selected the song, but the iPod started reproducing another song (from another artist altogether). I shrugged it off as a mistake, and gave up. Could that be a sign that the SSD has issues? I thought that SSDs are not supposed to fail! It's got barely one year of life!