IPOD causes PC to crash

Hi there, hope someone can help figure out whats going on.
I have a 3rd gen ipod (one before click wheel), black and white screen, it has been blissfully working perfectly for a few years now. Recently updated Itunes to 6.0.4 and ipod updater to 2.3. Here is what happens
With Itunes NOT running...
1. I dock my ipod which is connected via cradle and firewire. Until recently itunes would start up after a couple of seconds and synch perfectly, it doesnt now.
2. at this point my PC crashes, Windows reports a STOP error on a blue screen. I have pulled the error codes from the blue screen as...it mentions Driver corrupted_MMPOOL and reports the following codes... (0x00000000,0x00000000, 0x000000001, 0x8054946A)
With Itunes running
1. Dock ipod, connected as before.
2. itunes recognises ipod and updates perfectly.
There must be a reason why there is a difference...this is a hard fault and happens every time. The fault occurs when Ipod connects and tries to start up itunes, this forces the pc to crash.
Hope someone can help, i am not the most technically gifted. Luckily i can still work away, albeit with manually starting itunes prior to docking my ipod.
3rd gen ipod   Windows XP  
  Windows XP  

OK
Solved the problem....I noticed that the ipod was appearing in the device manager but was not being initialised in IPOD updater or Itunes.
Searched knowledge base for similar ....
"iPod shows up in Windows but not in iTunes"
and basically followed the instructions...all is now up to date and working as before....phew..!
took me a while to get there though...hope this is of some help to others
regards
George
  Windows XP  

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