How do you activate a "disabled" IPod Touch?

We have several IPod Touches in our house.  One of my children entered the wrong password (several times) into my son's IPod and "disabled" it.  I tried to start from scratch and re-registered it online, but it is still giving me a disabled message.  Any advice???

Connect the iPod it its syncing computer and restore the iPod via iTunes.  If iTunes asks for the passcode and you can't enter the passcode, place the iPod in recovery mode and then restore the iPod.  For recovery mode see:
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For further info see:
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