Ipod Connection problem (XP): This worked for me -- no joke

I have had the same problems that many of you had: Ipod was working fine, then it wouldn't update. Windows recognized the device, but itunes and iupdater did not.
I was near despair, especially when going through all the $%*# that you all did (5 R's, remove itunes, reinstall this/that). During one of these efforts, i managed to wipe out my CD ROM drives as well. Code 41, the drivers were fine, but the device wasn't recognized.
Bingo. I went to several Microsoft XP discussion boards, and found a registry fix to remove the upper and lower filters on that particular key. Anyway, it worked like a charm, and also fixed my ipod problem. I was able to restore the IPod right away, whereas before it would simply never offer the restore.
The cause of this seems to be either a bad installation of Roxio or some other CD writing software, or else a spybot worm.
Be careful when messing with the registry. I am not responsible if you mess this up.
Instructions are at the Microsoft knowledge base:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5BLN%5D;q314060

Spoke too soon. All that the above did was allow me to restore the iPod with the 2006-1-10 update.
Once that was done, I thought everything would be fine, but i managed to update all of 6 songs before the ipod crashed again. I think it's a hardware problem with the ipod. let the cursing begin....

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