Ipod not identified properly by It unes

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I have been having problems getting i-tunes to recognsie my Ipod nano 3rd gen.
ITunes used to recognise it OK but now when i connect via USB Window vista recognsies ok as my ipod but when Itunes is loaded up it a message comes up it-tunes does not recognise IPOd and to try to re connect and then dismounts my Ipod from windows. No matter how may times i reconnect it always come up with same message and disconnects ipod. This has been going on for about a month now. My Ipod classic is recognsied OK by Itunes when i connect it.
I have tries all the stages of the Apple instruction "Ipod indentified in Windows but recogised in Itunes" but to no avail.
Has anyone had the same problem and come up with a solution?

Well... my holidays went beautifully filled with music, but...after the holidays when I went back to work, the issue came back.
iTunes is saying "An iPod has been detected, but it could not be identified properly. Please disconnect and reconnect the iPod, then try again"
I guess that the iPodDriver.kext is corrupted again... I think that this corruption may be due to IRISpen express6 software. Besides one HPprinter and MissingSync for winmobile, I don't have any special 3rd party software installed. As for Missing Sync I'm using it for years and I'm having no problems with it for a long, long time... on the opposite, I installed IRISpen few days before the first corruption of iPod driver; to repair the situation I removed that software; I installed it again yesterday and now the iPod is not recognized again!
Can this situation be confirmed by Apple? (IRIS web site has no information or FAQ's about this).

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Hello everyone,
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But my music was still all good, these were just aesthetic difficulties. And then i got the message that, "oh there are these new updates for iTunes, would you like to download?" and i just kept refusing them; i didn't want to see my iPod nano demeaned again. But just yesterday I finally decided to stop avoiding it and I updated my iTunes.
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