IPod Shuffles, gen.1 and 2, won't sync, strange windows xp driver problem

I have been fighting this issue for 3 days...Each time I connect my iPod Shuffle to the USB port on my XP computer, it runs the new hardware found wizard and asks to load the USB drivers, disk drive, and generic volume drivers for the iPod. And each time, when it is finished doing this, the iPod appears briefly as drive with a letter assigned in windows explorer.
Then as soon as iTunes opens, the orange light on the iPod stops blinking, and iTunes sees the iPod, but the iPod disappears from Windows explorer. At this point, when I try to sync or add songs to the iPod, iTunes says it is syncing, but the led on the iPod never blinks orange, it just stays green, and i can't manually add songs either, and the sync never happens and iTunes just times out.
When i look at the iPod in the device manager through the control panel/system, windows says the iPod driver is installed and operational.
However, when I look at the iPod by clicking on 'safely remove hardware' in the system tray, it says there are no drivers installed for the ipod. When I click on update drivers, window says the best drivers are already installed.
Both iPod Shuffles I now have, gen 1 and 2, do the same thing on this windows xp computer, and at one point, the gen 1 shuffle worked perfectly on this machine. Both Shuffles work fine on my Vista computer, but all my songs are on the XP computer....can someone help?

OK, I can get the iPod shuffles to sync if i stop the iPod service, the bonjour service, and the apple mobile device service before i plug the iPod into the USB port.
I stopped the services using the 'computer management' tool that you can access by right clicking on 'My Computer' and choosing 'manage'.
Then i manually open iTunes after i plug the iPod in. The iPod in this case continues to show up as a drive in Windows explorer, with the drive letter i originally assigned to it.
Any thoughts on this?

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