IPod not recognized by iMac after plugging it into Windows computer by mistake!

Hi there:
I'm hoping someone can help me fix my husband's iPod.
It is normally synced to the iMac computer, but for some reason today he decided to plug it into his laptop, which runs Windows (grrrrrr).
The library was erased on the iPod. He doesn't remember a prompt saying that if he went ahead, the iPod would be erased.
Now when it is plugged into the iMac, it doesn't even recognize the iPod; it appears on the desktop as an icon "No Name" and says it is formatted in MS-DOS. Can I get it back to behaving properly, like an Apple??
Thanks for any suggestions you can provide.
kris

Hello again:
I'm getting closer. I did erase and reformat the iPod as you suggested, and it now reads as a Mac OS X formatted iPod. However, I still can't get iTunes to recognize it. It did, one time - and I got all the prompts to restore it, but after several tries with the wrong password (aargghh) the window went away and I can't get it back.
I've reset the iPod; I've put it into disk mode; I've tried both my husband's iTunes screen and my own; I've restarted the computer several times; I've plugged the iPod in using a different USB port.
I'm hoping that you have some more words of wisdom for me, because now that I've gotten this far I refuse to give up!
Thank you!
Kris

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