Ipod & itunes not communicating

60gb w/ video
itunes 6.0.5.20
Version 1.1.2
Running Windows XP SP2
I connect my ipod to the USB cable. Windows recognizes the connected device by playing a sound. The ipod is flashing the "Do not disconnect" screen. Under "My Computer" it finds the device and labels it as "Removable Disk (I:)" instead of the actual name of my ipod (Myipod) which it would do in the past.
At this stage what normally happens is once the ipod is connected to Windows it then launches itunes and the sync process starts. However, what happens is that the ipod remains in the "Do not disconnect" state and itunes does not launch itself. When I launch itunes before I connect the ipod it still does not start the sync process and Windows labels the device as "Removable Disk (I:)" instead of the actual name of my ipod (Myipod).
I've checked in start->control panel->system->hardware->device manager->USB controllers to see if its USB related issue, but it finds the device and its labeled as "USB Mass Storage Device" and its working properly.
This issue just started in the past week or two and I'm completely stumped as to how to solve it. I've had this ipod for close to a year and never encountered any problem with it until now. My hunch is that its an itunes related issue because Windows finds the device but for whatever reason can't name the device properly. I upgraded to all the current versions of itunes and the ipod updater software and that didn't cure the problem.
Please help!
Thanks

itunes must be reading an external hard drive or network drive as your ipod. check your local/external/network drives for a folder called 'ipod control' if you do find it then itunes is reading that drive as your ipod.
try changing/swapping your drive letters by going to control panel > administrative tools > computer management > disk management and change/swap the drive letter of ipod and/or network drive.
hope that helped.

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3.6 Now right-click and delete both of these keys.
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I want to repeat that editing the registry can completely mess up your computer if you modify the wrong things, so only do this if you're comfortable, and be extremely careful.
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Apple support people: assuming this works, please add it to your solutions page, and feel free to reimburse me for spending half of Christmas figuring this out.
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3.7 If you can't delete, you might need to open up the keys and repeat the procedure on the sub-keys.
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