IPod Touch and Vista Ultimate won't get along

I recently purchased an iPod Touch 16gb and have had some major issues ever since. THis is long winded but that's because without all details I think peopel will tell me to do what i've already tried.
When I first connected the device up I was prompted to update my iTunes and this completed successfully. Then when loading my music onto the device i got a few errors saying "The iPd cannot be synced. The disk could not be read from or written to." and then "Attempting to copy to disk 'xxx' failed. The disk could not be read from or written to. It sounded like a hard disk error but I persevered and managed to get my music loaded.
Then everything was going to fine for a while until one day I'd left my iPod attached to my PC (Vista Ultimate 32bit) overnight to charge and when I took it to work that day I found that all my music and videos had disapeared. I did some searching and this seemed to have happened to others.
When I got home and attached the iPod to my computer I was prompted to do a restore. So I kicked this off but part way through I received an error saying "The iPod could not be restored. An unknown error occured (9)." And that was it. Dead iPod. It wouldn't turn on and wasn't recognised anymore apart from windows saying "USB Device Not Recognised". Apple replaced this for me thinking it was a hardware problem.
Unfortunately I had the same problems with the next one. This time however I uninstalled and reinstalled all my apple applications (iTunes, Mobile Device, Quicktime etc.) as mentioned on the support pages. Unfortunately it didn't solve the problem. Once again I recieved the same errors and my music disapeared. This time I did a restore using the iPod menu and that was successful but then I kept getting the sync and write errors so once again I tried a iTunes restore and same again... dead iPod and back to Apple for my 3rd iPod.
I've now got my third one and am having the same issues. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the apple products many times, updated my USB drives and windows is completely to date. I've also created another user in Vista and get the same problem. I have a feeling this has something to do with the Apple Mobile Device Support but am not too sure as i've unistalled and reinstalled it a number of times.
Any advice or tips appreciated before I brick my 3rd touch and ask for a refund!

Se if thsis previous discussin helps
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23727903#23727903#23727903

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