DONT get an iPod. Do some research on mp3 players. Creatives are WAY better than ipods. You are probably getting the iPod video 30gb one right?? Well if you are, DONT!!!! Get the Creative Vision: M. The vision M has more battery life than an ipod video, it has over 200,000 display colors verses the ipods 65,000. Creatives are more durable than iPods. I am telling you, get anything by Creative, iPods are overrated!
http://www.everythingusb.com/creative_zen_vision:m_30gb.html
Scroll down a little and you can see the difference between the vision M's screen quality and the iPod videos quality. The zen destroys it!