IPod 30G not connecting to iTunes

Okay.
My iPod 30G Video is not connecting to iTunes. It is not showing up in the 'source panel'. It froze the the day after I bought it and I had to reset it. It froze two days later and it took about 45 min of resetting it to get it to where it is now: plays songs fine; cannot connect to iTunes; when I attach the iPod to my PC the 'do not disconnect' appears.
Anybody run in to this problem?

Well I tried to restore it as well but an error message kept popping up (on my PC). Mind you, I tried this at work; I'll try later to-night at home.
Thanks for the response!

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