Ipod touch 3rdGen Not Recognized as device on one computer but ok on another

My 3rd gen ipod touch syncs fine on my son's desktop (windows xp) but won't sync on my laptop (also xp). It comes up as a camera on my laptop. I've tried following all the recomended solutions from apple. Used msconfig to mess with the services, as instructed. Did a software uprade on both computer and ipod for itunes and ios (5.1.1) but still won't come up as a device in itunes. I can't use my son's computer because I've got about 16gigs of songs that won't fit on his hard drive. I did sync to his itunes library to test it and it worked fine, but doesn't seem to work on my computer. Soooo ... obviously somehting in my computer setup. HELP. please.
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So you tried eveything here:
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
Did yu already try:
Removing and reinstalling iTunes, QuickTime, and other software components for Windows Vista or Windows 7
or
Removing and Reinstalling iTunes, QuickTime, and other software components for Windows XP

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Message was edited by: B0Om

B0Om wrote:
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