A dozen iPods on my desktop

I have a 512 MB iPod shuffle 1st gen, and recently I have been having connectivity issues. I believe the origin of this is when I had my iPod plugged into one USB slot on my G4 iBook when I had a USB cable for a mouse plugged in to the other, the layout of the USB ports caused the iPod to be "off-center" in the port.
Since this happened, I have been having severe sync issues with iTunes (never had before). The main thing is I cannot autofill (a window saying "connecting to iPod", then it tells me to reconnect iPod) until AFTER i do a full restore. When I restore, it operates normally until the restore is finishing up and the computer gives me a "device removal" error. I can autofill now, and I can manually add/remove any songs I want while the autofill is still running, but it will not accept any new songs after it is done with the autofill.
Also, every time I remove the iPod I get a "device removal" error and a desktop icon appears. I now have about 12 of them due to trying several unsuccessful "tricks".
Can anyone help?
Thanks

Try using the +iPod Reset Utility+ instead of Restore in iTunes. They are not the same thing.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1238

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