IPod/iTunes problems on Windows XP

Now equiped with 5G iPods, my wife and I tried putting our photo album onto them. We have separate Windows XP logins.
Problem 1: Using the same photo directory was impossible: the "iPod Photo Cache" that is created there is write-protected against users other than the creator. Couldn't it be made shareable, or else created elsewhere than in the shared photo directory root (as is the iTunes music library)?
Problem 2: All our music files are on an external USB hard drive. Up until now, this drive did not need to be connected for me to sync the iPod with the podcasts in my music directory. It would just claim it couldn't find the disconnected files. I decided (given problem 1) to put a copy of our photos on the external drive too. When I tried sync'ing without the drive attached, iTunes got stuck in a busy-loop, using up all the CPU of the machine. I had to kill the process. I copied the photos back to the PC's internal disk, attached the external drive, reconfigured to point to the internal drive and sync'ed. All OK. Then I sync'ed without the external drive being there: looping again!
Problem 3: Windows XP has a much too simplistic approach to assigning drive letters. Even if you use the Computer Management -> Disk Management tool (accessible via the Control Panel's Administrative Tools) to assign a particular drive letter to an external drive, Windows is only too happy using that letter for another, non-assigned drive. Unfortunately, I loaded my songs into the iTunes library when the external drive was labelled G, the first free drive letter on my machine. Short of deleting the library and starting again (something I don't want to do), there is no way I can see to repoint the library references as a group (you can do it file-by-file, but that's incredibly slow and frustrating for even a single directory/album; forget a collection of 6000 songs!). Can this be scripted in some way on XP?
Thanks for any help/suggestions/fixes to iTunes!
Sony VAIO VGN-A190 Windows XP

I have no idea. It is not listed in any App articles and a Google search did not even find a hit for the error number.
All I can suggest is:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Removing and Reinstalling iTunes, QuickTime, and other software components for Windows XP

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