Error Message ipod Service Module has encountered a problem

I have just upgraded to iTunes 10, for some reason I receive two error messages, see below:
'*ipodServiceModule (32-Bit)has encountered a problem and needs to close, we are sorry for the inconvenience.*
If I then plug my iPod in iTunes firstly it doesn't open up like it used to, therefore I manually open to sync my ipod, but it doesn't recognise it and I get another error message
*'The software for communicating with the iPod is not installed correctly, please reinstall the iPods software.*
I have uninstalled and reinstalled 5 times and rebooted each time, yet I still get this message, it was working fine with the earlier versions, can anyone advise what is wrong?
Many thanks
Lisa

found this buried deep, deep in another thread courtesy of mooncow. i'm in no hurry to try to reinstall v10 anytime soon, but a few people in the thread tried this and said it works....
OK, a colleague of mine and I have been looking at this to try and find a common factor, and I think we may have found one. This may sound like the latest from Department of the Weird but bear with me. It would explain why quite a lot, but not anything like all, XP SP3 users have hit this problem. It would explain why Apple may have missed it even though they may have done thorough testing.
We discovered that a machine on which IPodService was failing to start with the subject error message had Data Execution Protection turned OFF in boot.ini. Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a security feature intended to prevent an application or service from executing code from a non-executable memory region. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875352. The machine that was experiencing the failure had "/noexecute=alwaysoff" in boot.ini.
We changed "/noexecute=alwaysoff" to "/noexecute=optin" in boot.ini, restarted Windows, and the IPodService started without error and has worked OK since.
"/noexecute=optin" is the default setting. I don't know why our system had "/noexecute=alwaysoff", and I am not aware of any harm or problems that can be caused by changing it to "/noexecute=optin". NB, changing that setting to "/noexecute=optout" or "/noexecute=alwayson" CAN cause problems if you don't know what you're doing, so I don't recommend anything other than a change from "alwaysoff" to "optin".
Anyway -- there is an alternative fix that people can try: edit your boot.ini (found in c:\boot.ini, which is usually a hidden file but you can open it in Notepad just by Open->c:\boot.ini) and change "/noexecute=alwaysoff" to "/noexecute=optin" (be careful not to change anything else in this file), save it, then restart Windows. I hope this helps folks. And if this helps Apple understand the problem and produce a fix, all the better.
mooncow

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