Ipod frozen when connecting to PC

Recently, every time I connected ipod to PC, ipod got frozen and I have to restart again which is helpless though, and my computer doesn't recognise ipod at all, though ipod is charging properly……God```Does it mean I have to keep listening to the same music forever.
Actually. I saw someone with the same issue, is it because of Itunes 8.0? or nothing to do with itunes? just my ipod broke?
Helpppppp

On both computers is the newest software installed.
When the ipod is stuck again and I press the center and te menu that works, I can use the ipod and listen to music as long as I don't connect to any computer (I even tried a third computer with a clean install of Itunes and Ipod software freshly downloaded)
But when I try the center and play/pause butten it does nothing. I don't see a Disk mode appear???
Since posting first message I tried several other things.
When I first reset my Ipod and remove hardware in my pc and after that reconnect it with the Ipod updater waiting for connection, then after a while when xp sais 'new hardware successfully installed' the ipod updater lights up the restore butten. So apperently it sees a Ipod. So I pressed it but after 5 minutes or so the ipod updater says that is cannot set the ipod on locked because it is beeing used.
So I shutted every process that was active down with Sysinternals ProcessNT (except for explorer and other mandatory processes) and tried again, but it did'nt work.
Thank you for your comment looking forward about what you think of it?!?!?!

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