Ipod still screwed up after restoring

my ipod has that icon with the folder and exclamation point. i followed the directions on the support page. first, i upgraded to itunes 7.0. then a warning popped up saying a corrupted ipod was detected and it recommended restoring. so i restored it. another pop up said it had been successfully restored and said to wait a min until itunes detected the "new" ipod. so i did. the same stupid warning popped up about detecting a corrupted ipod that needs to be restored. the same stupid folder icon still appears on my ipod. what do i do?????

i have the same exclamation mark with a folder on my ipod, but i cant even restore it.
the computer wont see the ipod at all.. i tried different usb ports, restarted computer several times, reinstalled the latest version of itunes, resetted my ipod several times.. nothing helps.
every time i turn it on the folder comes with the exclamation mark, and after 3 secs it goes off automaticly. when plugged into the pc, it doesnt turn off but it shows the folder non stop. windows doenst play the usb detection sound, windows cant see the ipod, and neither can itunes. no resoting possible.
(btw i cant create new topics on these forums? there is no create new topic link to be found anywhere)

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Thanks for taking the time to read my posting.
I have a 3rd Gen 40gb iPod which was running the 2.2 firmware on Windows XP, which has been fine up until recently. The songs started to randomly skip during playback; this went on for a few weeks. So I decided to restore/reformat the iPod using the iPod updater software and this is where the problem started.
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