Ipod not recognised by ITunes - have tried everything

Hi all
My Ipod was running smoothly with Windows until a few weeks back. I've gone through ALL of the procedures suggested (that I could find anyway) and none have worked. I tried to completely reset the IPod as all else has failed and I can't even do that. I try to open the updater and it just freezed whenever the Ipod is connected (so obviously I've not been able to try updating it either). I have the newest version of updater and itunes. Windows recognises the Ipod as a Removable Drive F and freezes if I try to open it. Sometimes I get a message saying it's not formatted but Windows won't format it anyway if I try. Any help??

Ugh. I just got my iPod today. Im really happy, but insanely mad right now.
Recently in the past I got a few USB Flashdrives for my computer. I tried all of them, and every time I installed the USB Mass Storage Device, it gave some kind of warning about how it did not have a Windows Logo, and it wasnt approved to use. It gave me the choice to either continue the installation and possibly destabilize my computer, or Stop the Installation. I continued and didnt think anything of it, and wouldnt you know it, all of my programs were frozen. So I uninstalled it, and now everything works fine.
Now Im having similar problems with my iPod. When I go to install my software for iTunes and my iPod it installs all of it until it gets to the "Publishing" part and then warns me that it isnt approved by Microsoft, and it doesnt have the logo. It says it could severely harm my system etc. I continued anyways, and guess what? Everything is frozen. So I uninstalled it, and took a different route. I stopped the installation the next time, but it continued anyway. I got iTunes up and running, but when I plug my iPod in the USB port it wont even show up in iTunes, let alone on My Computer...Can someone please help? Ive been working on this for over 4 hours now...Im tired. Any help would be greatly appreciated...

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