My List of Stuff Not Mentioned Yet
You guys all missed the most important one: the 30-second backlight timer only stays on for 20-seconds!
Off the top of my head, without repeating stuff that was already mentioned, here's my quick list:
1. When connected to my Toyota radio using the USA-SPEC-TOY12 adapter in automatic mode, the iPod keeps the "connected" screen on and never gives me back control. For now, I use it in manual mode, but then it doesn't display artist, track, or time info. I paid $170 for the adapter just so it would show all that stuff. The adapter works perfectly with my old Video 60.
2. Rebooting the iPod (holding menu and center buttons for a few seconds) loses all customized menus. A full "reset" should do that but a "reboot" should not. And since I have to "reboot all the time because of the next problem, customizable menus (which is a feature I love) are useless to me. It's not worth it to keep setting them up, only to lose them a couple times a day.
3. When playing a video, it sometimes freezes on the last frame of the video, instead of finishing it, giving it its play count, and either going on to the next one or back to the menu. This problem never goes away by itself. The only thing that cures it is a "reboot", and a "reboot" always fixes it... until the next time. This typically happens to me a couple times a day. And I don't think it's corrupt files. The same videos that freeze will work fine another time.
4. Scrolling forward and backward through a video file works fine unless... if I scroll all the way to the end (to skip the credits in a TV episode and still give it a play count for example), it always jumps right back to the exact point I started scolling from. For now, I get around this by stopping a few seconds short of the end and letting the last bit play out. This happens to me on every single video file I play, and it never happened on the 5G.
5. Some of my TV episodes show up out of order on the iPod. They are all tagged correctly and show up right in iTunes and on my 5G. This could be something I'm doing wrong instead of an actual "bug", but if it is, I can't figure it out. I have 7 seasons of the same show. 4 seasons show up in the correct order, 2 show up in correct but reverse order, and 1 season shows up in random order. And all the ones that are in the wrong order now have shown up in the correct order in the past (when the ones that are correct now were wrong).
6. 30-second timer is only 20-seconds.
These are my main issues which are actual "bugs" that need to be corrected. I'm not happy with some of the other changes Apple has made, but they're not "bugs" in my opinion, and most of them have already been mentioned.
Having said all that, I think the iPod is the greatest invention mankind has ever come up with. My Video 60 is my most favorite thing I have ever bought (including several houses and cars). I really hoped my new Classic 160 would be even better, but aside from the extra storage, it's got a long way to go to get even with the old one. But I have confidence that Apple will straighten all these "bugs" out, and it will be even better soon. We just need to be patient. For now, the Classic 160 is still my second favorite posession. And I still have the old one.