Ipod Setup Assistant

Hi,
Hope you can help? Just got 2 replacemnt Nano's from Apple & despite going through a set up & register every time I plug in one of the ipods to Itunes it comes up with the ipod Setup Assitant. Any ideas how I can stop it please. It only happens with one of them.

hi Jetroo!
despite going through a set up & register every time I plug in one of the ipods to Itunes it comes up with the ipod Setup Assitant.
that's not the most common symptom we see with the following issue, but we had better check up on it:
Windows confuses iPod with network drive and may keep iPod from mounting or songs may seem to disappear
love, b

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