Click wheel iPod connectoiin troubles

I am having troubles with my click wheel 20 GB iPod (colorless screen). When I attempt to turn it on, it displays the folder and exclamation point icon. When I connect it to my computer (windows XP), it sometimes shows the do not disconnect screen and says it is charging, but it will not show up in iTunes, and it shows up under "my computer" intermittently, and when I open it there, nothing shows. I have tried recharging it,resetting it, all those re words, and still nada. One last note:I started experiencing these problems after connecting my iPod to a computer with iTunes 7. Help would be much appreciated.

Mitch, another forum member on here, has a good post about what to do if you have a / folder on your iPod.
Check out the steps in his post here:
Mitch: Exclamation point and folder and nothing else
-Kylene

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