and by the right tool for the job, do you mean an i river instead of an ipod video?

can i use the same MicroMemo?

I have now used this sucessfully with my 30gb video on 30+ occasions with no skipping, the key for me was to format the ipod before each time i use it. Bit of a pain but gets rid of any skipping in the wav file if the ipod is empty (or almost empty - no more than 2gb or so on there)