Ipod as N/A Device for Kenwood Car Stereo

Hello everyboy, first poster here .
In September I bought my first Ipod: a classic Ipod 80 gb. I've never have a problem listening to music and so on and I was really happy with it.
Some days ago I bought a new Kenwood's car stereo with USB port. When I plug my Ipod to the car stereo it does not acknowledge it and the display says "N/A device". The icon in the Ipod seems in charge but the stereo do not see the music for the Ipod.
At first I thought that it was because of the car stereo but it's not true. I tried with the different ipods of my friends and there were no problem at all.
Itunes and Firmware are upgraded to the latest version.
My question is: what should I do? Just buy a new Ipod and sell my old one on Ebay :D?

I want to add some information: the model of my car stereo is a Kenwood KDC-W5041UA and it has the "Made for Ipod" logo, so it should not have compatibility issue based on Ipod model.
I've tried all the routine procedures (reinstall, reboot and so on) before I've written here but they do not work.

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