Ipod recognized by pc and itunes, but disconnects in the middle of use

hi everyone. i'm trying to get my ipod to work with my pc. it does the weirdest thing: when i connect it via the usb 2.0 itunes opens up and reads it fine. something like 30 secs- 2 min later the ipod disingages itself from the pc on its own. i cannot get it to stay engaged with the "do not disconnect" sign on.
i have quite a bit of music on the ipod already, since i passed it from another pc when the ipod was configured as an external drive. it now reads windows as the format, and the itunes recognizes at first.
copypod and something like 4 other similar programs to get music out of my ipod and into the pc do exactly the same as the itunes. i even start copying, but get an error message after a song or two, saying that it cannot find the files (of course, the pc doesn't realize it is connected to the ipod).
when it disengages the ipod still appears as drive f: in my comp.
there doesn't appear to be any power problem, i've reseted, updated, restored and formatted the whole ipod 2 times.
thanks a mil to anyone who can help me out! my best
pc, amd 1.9 ghz   Windows XP  

Does the mini even have a wireless card (Airport) in it? If you are using your Airport card to share internet (the mini is connected to the network via an ethernet cable), then you might want to check with the mini forum people for some help. Rebooting to restore WiFi seems to be rather extreme.
I don't believe your touch is going to cause this type of problem. If you want to test it, turn Airplane mode on before you go to bed. If your Mac mini is locked, then you probably need to look to what is going on with the mini.

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