Ipod synch sadness

for about a month now, whenever I dock up my IPOD 5th gen 60gb, itunes spins on it for a while, and one of two scenarios will occur:
1.) it will tell me to restore to factory settings
2.) it won't see the ipod.
In the case of #1, if I restore... great... next time it things snych up, but of course I have to wait for hours while thousands of songs copy to my pod. AND, after disconnecting a reconnect will ALWAYS result in scenario 1 or 2 (see above).
In the caseof #2, if I do a pod reset (hold/switch, then menu + center), while the pod is still connected, it will reset and then itunes will see it and snych it. Cool. A little trouble, but in the end it worked. Until next time I connect which ALWAYS results in scenario 1 or 2 (see above).
I am on Windows XP. I have itunes 7.0.2.16. This problem did not start with the most recent upgrade of itunes, so I don't think they are related.
pod works fine otherwise, music and vid still looks and sounds great.

You might try forcing it into Manual mode by holding Center button and Play together.
This might help when it's not recognized by the computer.
Then, if that helps, you might try keeping it in manual mode and see if that solves the problem.
That's the only suggestion I have personally, though.

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Gunit454,
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61003
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61771
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Identifier:
com.apple.Safari
Version:
Build Info:
WebBrowser-75345910~1
Code Type:
X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [278]
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2014-05-07 16:14:33.635 +0300
OS Version:
Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report:
235635 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:
22383
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   13
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I've got a problem with my ipod and i've tried everything to fix it and nothing works.
So basically after my ipod gave me the sad face I tried putting it into disk mode and that worked successfully! However after I plugged it to my computer, it would (after a few moments and windows detects something being plugged in) it resets itself and gives me the sad face again and following that a sign comes up saying Please Wait Very Low Battery.
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