Ipod not showing up, locks up iTunes

I'm sure this is an old question but I bought a used Ipod mini and everything worked great for a while so I don't think it's a bad iPod. Downloaded iTunes 7.7 and got songs sent over and it worked fine for a week. Today the computer won't recognize the iPod and when I plug it in it locks up iTunes. I see the iPod in the device manager and it says it's working properly. Also the songs on the iPod vanished today as well. Nothing has happened (dropped, damaged, etc) so I'm at a loss. I tried uninstalling 7.7 and installing 7.6 but no difference. help! Like I said it worked great before, now nothing.
Vista Home, HP Pavillion 2GB, Dual Core.
Thanks!
Todd

hey
i finnaly got it to work i tried restarting it 2 times and it finnaly connected.
hope this can help some people.
i think since so many people are having this problem they should tell you how to fix it in the manual it comes with.
it would be alot quicker and LESS browsing and reading.

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