IPod is in recovery mode, can't restore

Over the last week, my iPod has refused to wake after I've locked it. The only solution was to connect it to the mains and reset it. It has done this three times so far. I decided to restore my iPod in hopes of fixing the issue. I clicked the restore button in iTunes and was met with the following message:
"The iPod "iPod" could not be restored. An unknown error occured (1600)."
I held down the reset buttons and the iPod once again connected to iTunes, which explained that the iPod is in recovery mode and needs to be restored before it can be used. I clicked the restore button, and I just got the same error message.
I'm running 3.1.2 (which has just been terribly buggy since 3.0) on my 1G touch and have Windows 7 64-bit.
Any suggestions??
Thanks

I'm glad I'm not alone. So far I have just tried restoring it over and over again. At one point I had success - the iPod booted and I could actually use it. iTunes then asked me if I wanted to set it up as a new iPod or restore from a backup. Obviously I chose restore from backup and the process started. At the end of the process I got an error message saying it couldn't be restored. I have had the errors 1600, 6, 13 and 2005.
When I hold the sleep/home buttons when connected to the PC iTunes recognises the iPod, but the screen of the iPod doesn't turn on unless I choose to restore. I can't use the iPod at all when it's disconnected from the PC.
I don't know what else to do. I think I might just buy a 3G one even though it's not really an improvement over the 2G.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808
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RahullikThe post is over a year old.
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I hadn't synced my iPod touch for a long time, because just before Christmas, my antivirus stopped working on my laptop, and I got a virus. I was unable to do anything. Because of my circumstances, I wasn't able to get my computer back to normal until just about a week ago. During the time I didn't have access to my computer, I made a lot of purchases in the iTunes app.
Now that I have access to my computer again, I tried to sync my iPod. Since it had been a while, I needed to update it. Something must have happened during the update, but I don't know what. All I know is that now my iPod will only show the "Connect to iTunes" screen (so I can't use it at all), and when I connect to iTunes, it says my iPod is in "Recovery Mode." My purchases were not synced to my computer.
iTunes says to restore it, but I don't want to do that because I would lose all of the purchases I've made since Christmas. They weren't synced, so they would be wiped if I restored it, and only what is on my laptop would be re-synced.
Bottom line: is there a way to get my iPod to work again, without restoring it to factory settings? If not, then I spent all of that money in iTunes, and now what? I'm supposed to buy it again?
Thanks for taking the time to read this; I know it's long. I just wanted to make sure all of the details were there, because I've scoured the internet, and no one has a solution for this, other than wiping the slate clean, downloading a program from who-knows-where, with who-knows-what viruses attached to it, or jailbreaking. And those are not options.

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Try disabling all security software and firewalls, then try again.
Or try from a different computer.
This error is a pain in the butt and a new issue, too. I'm sorry.

IPod is in recovery mode, can't restore

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