IPod Nano 2gen recognition issue!

Ok, my girlfriend got a 2nd gen ipod nano and is computer illiterate. SO, she thought hey, i'll just give it to my friend to load songs on. So the first time that it was connected to a computer was on her friends computer. then i went over and installed itunes while she was at school, and typed out a guide to the basics, all that jazz.
i get a call that night and she said its not working. crap. i walked her through some stuff, and it turns out, its not being recognized in iTunes or My Computer. The apple help sites say to reinstall the software on the cd that came with the ipod....except they dont have cd's with those ipods.
what do i do? Did using it with the other computer jack everything up? What do i need to do?

No. Look at the link and read the symptoms. First symptom states: "iPod does not show up in iTunes or as disk in Windows Explorer." This is why I pointed out that you needed to look through all of the links to see if they are helpful. Just looking at the title is not enough since the titles tend to be general.
Link for article I am referring to
You may also want to double check and make sure your girlfriends computer has the correct service pack for her OS if you have not already.

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