5th Gen. Video & Photo feautres are gone

I just discovered that my 5th gen iPod has been demoted. The photo and video features have somehow been disabled - they don't know up in iTunes preferences, nor can I drag a movie onto the iPod. When I run the iPod software updater, the icon has changed to suggest that my 5th gen iPod is a much older model (non-clickwheel model).
I've reinstalled iTunes, rebooted. Reinstalled the 10.4.5 update. Nothing.
PowerMac G5 1.8 SP Mac OS X (10.4.5) 1.25GB RAM, 80/200 GB SATA Drives, 20" Cinema Display, lots of USB stuff...

SOLUTION FOUND:
I used Pacifist to install the iPodDriver.kext file from the iTunes installer and rebooted. Why the installer couldn't tell that the .kext file was missing is beyond me.
The file was deleted when, in a previous iPod problem, I was advised to delete the .kext (and it did solve that problem).

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