IPOD Nano works fine in Itunes, but doesn't show in explorer or My Computer

When I first installed the Second Gen Nano, Windows explorer picked it up immediately as a drive and I could brouse all files on the Nano. My previously installed Itunes came up and stated I had to upgrade to a newer version for it to work.
After installing the newest Itunes, it works perfectly, but, the Nano no longer is found on my explorer or in My Computer. What happened?
My devices show the correct drivers and everything is working well. It is like Apple no longer wanted me to view the Nano outside of Itunes.

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, the drive assignment and letter (P) initially used for the Nano is open and available, so there are no conflicts there. Further, Disk Management only identifies the HD's I have and no others.
Everything appears cogent and within parameters, yet windows does not recognize the Nano (with exception to operational device drivers), while Itunes does and works just fine.
The issue has something to do with the newest version of Itunes, as the older Itunes version couldn't read the Nano but explorer could.

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i noticed one thing. the iPod is formated as FAT32, but i have my HD in NTFS. could this be related?
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had so many different things go wrong its not even
funny! so here's my question...when i connect
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to your ipod??? well my ipod is not showing up in the
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