IPOD Nano Seen in Windows & Almost in  ITunes!

New IPOD Nano is seen fine in My Computer as drive F: (external hard drive is E:) and I can browse to it using Windows Explorer. Itunes starts up when I connect the Nano but it does not list in under Sources. I have done everthing I could find on the support site including the 5 R's, disabling all but core services using MSCONGIG, removing/cleanup install using MS utility/reinstall with Virus protection disabled, checking for possible power shutdown problem with USB. I even went so far as to use the XP System Restore utility to get me back to the day before bought the NANA, downloaded and installed latest version of ITUNES with no virus protection and disabled all but essential services using MS CONFIG. Does anyone have any other ideas on what I could try? I am running XP Media Edition.
Dell Inspiron 6000   Windows XP Pro  

My nano would also launch itunes but not be seen in the source list. How I resolved it was I would shut down itunes, and while the ipod was still connected, do the reset on the ipod. When I reset it itunes would launch again, and this time itunes would show the ipod in the source list.

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