IPod Nano(3rdgen) No drivers found

I am going to start off with, I'm having a fit.. My Roomie told me that his ipod touch wasn't getting recognized at all by the PC, so i started seeing what I could come up with. I did absolutely everything that my time doing tech support had given me but I can't figure this one out. I have unplugged and replugged their ipod touch, switched USB ports with my mouse(mouse works fine when in both ports), reset ipod, reinstalled itunes, enabled/disabled/uninstalled USB driver, used my own Nano. Both the touch and the nano don't say (Do Not Disconnect)and when either of them are connected they show up as "Unknown Driver" in Device manager and i get a bubble, the bottom left of my screen that says "USB device attached has malfunctioned and windows does not recognize it. For assistance click this message." When I click on it I get "Device Not recognized".
When I updated or reinstalled the drivers I got the HW update wizard telling me that able to update the driver because it said it couldn't find a better match. I uninstalled the driver and then I plugged the ipod back in and it found new hardware and installed components but alas it says the same old thing "USB device attached has malfunctioned and windows does not recognize it. For assistance click this message."
Please If you have an Idea it would really help my sanity!

Hi, again
I have managed to resolve the issue. After getting nowhere in the apple pages, I googled for a while, and eventually found a reference to iPodDriver.kext. This file was missing from my mac. So, after googling a bit more I found a number of ways to get the file back, and eventually found it. Now after several reboots, the ipod is connected and doing ipod things.
If you have the same problem, google for iPodDriver.kext, but beware, this file is not easy to find, depending on the version of iTunes installer you have.
Good Luck.

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I would recommend the steps in this article named iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows found here http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538. While the title of the article describes a symptom a bit different from yours, I feel the troubleshooting is still relevant.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1286
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Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button until the screen goes dark. The Apple logo should appear after a few seconds, then the Home screen should appear.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1320
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compaq presario Windows XP laptop

i recently purchased a ipod nano second generation
(product)RED and it worked great but now (two months
later) the center button dosent always work and when
i plug it in to a windows compaq presario laptop it
charges but isnt even on the computer or itunes .
i tried using different cords and even on a different
computer please help me :[
compaq presario Windows XP
laptop
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