IPod Finally Updates to 1.2...

Good grief! What a horrible experience! My son and I both have iPod 5G 30's. He has iTunes installed on an eMachines running XPSP2. Last night he tried to install iTunes7. Every time we tried to install it, it would throw an error msg that it couldn't install iTunes because QuickTime wasn't installed. After messing around with, deleting iTunes and QuickTime and manually deleting the program files, and deleting registry entries and downloading the iTunes installer a couple of times... QT and iTunes installed. The last iTunes installer that was downloaded was 2k different in size than the first one.
Then the fun updating the iPod started. As many others here have indicated, he was getting the unending "Do not disconnect" msg. Tried the reset thing some suggested. Tried the disconnect and reconnect some suggested. Got to the point where the iPod was showing 1.2 for the system, but iTunes wasn't seeing it. Restarted the computer, which took an unusually long time to get to the desktop, and, voila! iTunes saw the iPod and things appear to be working OK.
But gawd... I sure am reluctant to put iTunes7 and 1.2 on my system after spending close to 3 hours messing around to get his setup to work. And considering the number of others who are also experiencing problems... hmmm... I mean, I understand that most people that are posting here are doing so because they're having problems and there are folks out there that aren't having problems but... this sure leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Additionally, to get games to work on his iPod, he had to authorize his computer... which was already authorized in iTunes6. I don't think it's acceptable for Apple to burn an authorization because one installs a new version of iTunes. I'd love to know if that is in the software license.
To all those who have not updated to iTunes7 or iPod system 1.2... GOOD LUCK! Plan to spend some time trying to get it to work. To those who update successfully on the first try; congratulations, you dodged a bullet. To those who run into problems; I feel your pain.
Thanks,
Lang
Dell XPS400 Windows XP Pro

Well... here's an interesting development...
Having not much to do, and throwing caution to the wind, I decided to try the update on my system.
Completely opposite of my son's and my experience updating his system.
iTunes7 installed without a hitch.
iPod firmware 1.2 installed without a hitch.
Whole thing took like 5 minutes.
I know they're two different systems, but we keep our systems pretty clean; no 3rd party sound doo-hickeys or stuff like that. Pretty vanilla.
I guess all I can say is that I sure am glad I didn't have to go through the crap we went through on his system to get iT7 and 1.2 working on my system! LOL
Thanks,
Lang

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