IPod Not getting Recognized in Recovery Mode! HELP!

Hi,
I woke my iPod Touch 2G (Running iOS4.0) this morning, it froze.. so I held down the power button and the home button which does a soft reset, and it tuned back on with the wire and iTunes, or it was in Restore mode..
Then just now I tried connecting it to my old computer cause my Laptop is dead too. So it said to restore it because it was malfunctioning. Which I tried to do - then it told me I couldn't restore/update to 2.2.1 because it was too old. So I got 4.1 and iTunes 10. Which brought up the quicktime hassle, so I installed that too, and now my computer isn't recognizing the iPod, because it's in recovery mode it won't recognize it in My Computer either. I've tried restarting and reinstalling. It installed the iPod recovery hardware, but I have no clue how to delete that on XP. :S
I've been trying for about 3 hours now.
I've now tried installing iTunes 9.1 which wouldn't open. Deleted anything that says Apple or iPod off my computer, and so hopefully it might install the driver software again.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks for your input, I just tried that. Apple Mobile Device was not working with iTunes, so I opened up the iTunesSetup with Winrar and installed AppleMobileDevice.msi which started up the service, and I also removed every bit of Apple from my computer, then reinstalled them both. Everything was running how fine, then I connected the iPod and it still wasn't recognized. It just wakes up with the same recovery screen with the wire/arrow/old iTunes logo. It doesn't show up on iTunes nor does it show up in My Computer as a drive.

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