Apple Mobile Device Is Not Started

Question

OK so updating Itunes to 10 has caused me a whole slew of problems. First there was the issue of it recognizing it as a camera which I never got that part fixed cause when I tried to update the driver as instructed, it told me it was already up to date.
First off, when I updated to 10, my computer blue screened and upon restart, I kept getting a bad image error message that wouldn't go away unless I went in and repaired itunes, which upon restart, it was bad again.
So I got that fixed by unistalling and reinstalling, which plugging in my ipod told me that I needed to be using 64bit itunes...which I was. I got that fixed.
Now my problem is that when I plug in my ipod, it tells me that I can't use it because the apple mobile device has not been started. Alright, so I go into services to manually start it as troubleshooting guides have told me.
Problem. It tells me that it can't be started because the file cannot be found.
Just so we're clear, I have uninstalled and reinstalled itunes several times. I have gone through the instructions and uninstalled all associated programs in the specified order and went through the test to make sure itunes was completely removed and then did a fresh install. I still get the same issue.
This is really frustrating me because I recently had to get my ipod replaced by apple so all the music I had on it, I never really got around to resyncing it just yet because not all of it was added to itunes. So I've got all this music and videos that I can't put on it unless I want to put it all on a portable harddrive and download it to the desktop (which runs vista and itunes 10 had no issues on it) and add it that way...but I'd really not want to that because that's tedious when it's already all on this computer. My ipod software is up to date, as well.
Please, someone help me.

Answer 1

Jolly Giant wrote:
SpyglassSally wrote:
Also, are you running 64 bit? If so, you need [iTunes 8.0.2 for Windows Vista 64-bit|http://support.apple.com/downloads/iTunes8_0_2_for_Windows_64bit]
why not [_*iTunes 9.2.1*_|http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1056] ?
JGG
Ooops! Old link, that's why! Thanks!