Frustrating! iPod Classic restarts computer!!

I have gone through numerous help guides from Apple and have searched through at least 40 pages on the message boards and have yet to find any advice that might actually help me. I recently got a new 160GB iPod Classic and when I connected it to my computer through the USB port it was not recognized by iTunes but a little bubble popped up in Windows saying that a USB Mass Storage Device had been detected and as soon as that disappeared, the computer went to a blue screen and then restarted. The blue screen did have a message on it but it flashed so quickly that it was impossible to read. I tried nearly everything I could think of to make the problem stop. I deleted a lot of old programs from my computer, I reinstalled iTunes, and have tried other things which were suggested in the help articles. However nothing I did fixed the problem.
I took the iPod back to the Circuit City where I had purchased it and the guy there tested it by plugging it into his computer...he had the same problem. Thinking that it was an issue with the iPod, we got a new one. Unfortunately the same problem occurs with the new iPod. I also bought my father a 4GB iPod Nano over a month ago but haven't had the time to get his hooked up, and oddly enough it restarts the computer as well.
For some reason my ancient 20GB iPod still connects to iTunes, but only through Firewire. I've tried using Firewire with the Nano and the new Classic, but iTunes won't recognize the iPods through that either, but at least it make the computer restart.
Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!!

Hi chaps,
you may add myself to your problem report list too.
After having installed iTunes 8 thru the update process called up from Vers 7 my iPod classic 80G is crashing the Vista computer. Blue screen indicates "usbappl....sys" to be the issue and after Vista recovery the problem report includes the info
BCCode: 1000007e
BCP1: C 00 00 00 5
BCP2: 8D7DC515
BCP3: 8895B688
BCP4: 8895B384
OS Version: 606001
Service Pack 1_0
The crash happens regardless of whether iTunes is running or shut down. The ipod classic 80G works on another machine under XP and using iTunes 7.xxx
I hope that Apple can very soon offer an update to iTunes.
cu

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