Ipod Shuffle wont be recognized on Itunes and wont update/restore

Its driving me crazy.
the Itunes wont recognize it because it says there is another user using the softwear and all of the other acounts are logged out.
when I tried restore or update it, it tells me "Ipod service error". so bassicaly im stuck and I cant format it or nothing. and I tried like a million times to take it out and plug it back in.
Ipod and apple stuff in general have too many restriction and standards that you have to have for their stuff to work right.

Neither of 2 iPod Shuffles (both 1GB) will allow version 1.1.4 software to install - various errors occur: "can't unmount", another user is using it, an unexpected error occurred (-147 or somesuch), and of all these, the last one most frequent and varied in timing (i.e. doesn't return immediately but takes between 10 seconds and 2 minutes to return error).
So the nicely buillt-in iPod Updated does download the appropriate software (cool!) but seems to hang up with the Shuffle with various errors. Tried the 5 Rs per ipod on support.apple.com, and also made Shuffle was only connected iPod, as there are 2 firewire-based 30 and 60 GB iPods, 1 60 GB USB iPod, a mini, and 2 shuffles. Lots of wires but all connected to a powered hub or two, so easy to disconnect. Nice wanrings on low USB power levels but just in case…

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