How Itunes 7.0 killed my ipod 60g photo

Here is a sad story for others benefit. I am out of luck! as my ipod is 13 months old and out of warranty... and nothing seems to work. [I am hoping for some tech master on these forums who can help]
1. I had a perfectly working ipod (No issues) Which had just been synced by itunes 6.0x fine 4 days back. Itunes told me a few days back to update to 7.0 version. I accepted and installed 7.0. No issues during itunes installation.
2. I plugged in the ipod. Itunes 7.0 told me that the ipod has to be restored!!!!(strange) Dumb me! - I thought it to be ok and accepted. Itunes started the restore and midway - gave the error "Error 1418" cannot restore. etc. IPod still showed donot disconnect. I tried eject - no luck. So i had to unplug the ipod. Luckily the ipod did come back to life after a few minutes.
3. As it did not work first time, I rebooted the pc - Reset the ipod & and tried again. This time, I did a complete restore without any errors. Then I synced the ipod which worked fine as well (18G of songs came back to life). I thought I missed the bullet but I was wrong.
4. When I tried to play the music - it would not play anything and just keep skipping tracks. ie: If I select album1 - track1 - it would just go 1..2..3...4...5 tracks automatically and on and on when I hit play. Ok - so I decide so sync again
5. Next day Itunes was updated to 7.018 - so I decided to download the latest version (7.018). Plugged in my ipod and if you can guess - I got the "IPOD needs to be restored" AGAIN!. I accepted as there was no other option).
6. This time around the Restore took 1-2 hours and it was slow. I decided to wait till its done. Then it told me to unplug the ipod and put it in power outlet which I did. I saw the update bar at the bottom move 2-3 times. Then it reset itself and started showing the bad folder icon!!!!
7. From that moment on - all it does is "FOLDER with Exclamation mark. I have reset the ipod multiple times - but all it does is cycles between the IPOD ICON and SAD FOlder icon.
8. Then I read up on disk mode to see if I can use disk mode. I removed itunes to make sure it does not pop up.
9. Now each time I plug in the ipod into the pc - it cycles between
a. "Apple icon" ; b. "Dont disconnect" (Which is ok: As I see disk G on the desktop) & immediately followed by c. "disconnect.. " (drive G dissapear). I tried 3 PCs and each pc does the same thing. Drive shows up then dissapears. Tried reinstalling Itunes but Itunes does not see the ipod!!!
10. I cannot go into diagnostic mode either as it only goes to SAD folder error icon.
So to end the rather long frustrating story. It seems to me that Itunes 7.0 and 7.018 has succesfully managed to kill my ipod
Does anyone have any idea on how to get the ipod disk to show up in disk mode without disconnecting automatically? Does anyone have an ideas on what may be wrong?
Thanks in advance for any guidance... else consider this as a warning to not restore your 4th gen ipod photo.
Andy
pc   Windows XP  

Hi Dwb, THanks for your advice. I will try to find a mac-friend and try your trick in next few days.
Here is a quick update which is just blowing me away!. Looks like the new firmware 1.2.1 is feature-rich See below update.
1. I was fiddling around the diagnostic mode to see if I can bring the ipod back to life. after multiple tries to get to diag mode (Pressing the rev-select-ffwd at the same time when the apple logo shows up) - All of a sudden the IPOD comes back to life. It says select English - then I select English and then I see the full menus.
2. Downloaded Itunes 7.0.1.8 again and Itunes (On another computer ) says your IPOD is corrupted! (Looks like I am a step back - before it was only saying your IPOD needs to be restored). I selected RESTORE IPOD (Only option)
3. It is very very slowly doing its stuff Restoring IPOD. . . . . .
Maybe 1 dot every 2 minutes. I will let it do its stuff and update the group.
Basically what this tells me is 1. The HDD is fine; 2. The IPOD screen/functionality etc is fine. 3. The USB connection and sync/etc is fine.
What I believe is broken is the restore process now embedded in the ITunes 7.0+ s/w with the 1.2.1 f/w for color ipods. For some reason it screwed up my HDD the first time around. Maybe it did not completely format/partition the drive. I have my fingers crossed...2nd try ongoing
Andy
pc   Windows XP  

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