IPod Touch 3G Stuck in restore mode

Question

Now, wait until you here this one. I turn on my iPod, and out of nowhere, I have a 21 million minute lock. SO, I figure I'll just restart it. I put my ipod into recovery mode, and no dice on my main computer which is on Win 7 using 64-bit iTunes. I get the error code 1611, which according to apple's page, is a hardware error.
Then I thought it was just my computer, and behold, it starts to restore on my old Windows Vista 32-bit computer. When the loading bar finishes and it has updated to 4.3, it tells me to keep the iPod plugged in for 10 seconds. The iPod is then put into a "connect to iTunes" screen. After 10 seconds pass, what other would I expect than an error.
This error is -9808, which is supposed to be a problem with certificate settings when connecting to the iTunes store. I have tried the tutorials before, where you change your internet settings MULTIPLE times, and I still get the error, even after restarting my computer many, many times.
I then get the idea that maybe my main computer, the Windows 7 using 64-bit iTunes could get by this error. But now, iTunes doesn't even detect the iPod being plugged in!
I pretty much wasted my friday re-installing iTunes (Yes, the latest version) over 20 times on 2 computers.
Any ideas will be very much appreciated.

Answer 1

sounds like the same issue a bunch of people have had one person was able to answer. on windows 7 uninstall service pack 1 and reboot then disable firewall. try restoring then . the trouble i had was it would start restoring and then stall. on my win xp machine it was giving error 1611 but on win7 no error 1611. if your vista machine seems to do the trick try uninstalling the service packs or at least disabling firewall.