Ipod appears in windows and itunes, then vanishes

When I first plug my ipod in it appears in both itunes and explorer. Whilst it appears it has the do not disconnect sigh on screen. As soon as that vanishes then the ipod stops showing up in itunes and in explorer, it still shows up in device manager under "disk drives" but i can't access it in any way. Can anyone help me? It's a 30Gb fifth gen ipod

What other USB devices do you have connected to this computer and are you on a network. Have a printer with slots for flash memory?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93499

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