Ipod touch being recognized as a Digital Camera by PC

This is very bizarre.
I connected my ipod touch to my PC and it gets recognized as a Digital Camera. Windows reads it as, and I kid you not, Apple Ipod Digital Camera. Itunes doesn't recognize the device, but upon connecting my ipod touch to the PC the Cannon EOS photo utility starts up...ready and willing to import my pictures.
Strange as this is, it gets even more weird...
For some odd reason now I can not even go on to the apple site. I thought since my itunes isn't up to date to the latest version that maybe the problem so I proceeded to update itunes but now the apple site won't load. It was working fine the day before. I thought maybe the site was down (I have never known the apple site to be down) so I decided to ask a couple of online buddies to visit www.apple.com and they reported as the site loading and operating fine.
What gives???
I rechecked the minimum requirements and it states that I need xp service pack 2 and USB 2.0 to operate properly. I don't have sp2 installed on my XP, but my 30gig 5th generation ipod states the same requirements (The ipod touch is my 3rd ipod) and it works absolutely perfect each time on the same PC.
Why would my ipod touch have an identity crisis and why would it block it's parent site?
Help anyone? The customer service rep at the Apple store was completely baffled.

Check your iTunes version - although your 5th gen works with older iTunes versions, at least 7.4 is required for the IPT - older versions will not even recognize it.
As for the Apple site not working, there have been sporadic reports of that, no known reason, usually resolved in a few hours.
You could also try updating using Apple Software Update (usually found in Start > All Programs), or from within iTunes (Help menu > Check for Updates).
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