Forced to eject iPod

In a recent attempt to test the battery life of my 30G iPod, I changed iTunes' settings to manual update of my iPod. I knew this would force me to have to eject the iPod when I was done updating. However, now that I'm done with the test, I've changed the setting back to automatically update, but I am still forced to eject the iPod when it is done; it no longer updates and then automatically pops up that it is OK to disconnect.
Other than reinstalling iTunes, does anyone have any ideas?
iTunes 6.0.5.20 on WinXP Pro.

Your welcome,
Not sure what it says in the apple artical about testing the battery (Been awhile since I been there) but in alot of articals they have they don't mention to uncheck this when setting it back to "Auto Update".

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