IPod touch connects as a camera???

I was setting up a friends iPod touch and when connected to her XP machine the computer reads it as a digital camera. iTunes does not see the device. XP recognizes it as an "Apple iPod" but still treats it like a cam. It was originally set up on my laptop also running XP and when hooked back to it the iPod works properly, it also works perfect hooked to my G5 running Tiger. What is causing this. The two windows comps are running identical versions of iTunes.

I did a reset on the iPod. The one where you erase everything... That didnt work. I'm guessing it needs to be restored, but the only way I know how to do that is through iTunes. Since iTunes does not recognize the iPod on the desireded xp machine I'm guessing I'd need to use my G5 to do this since the problem seems to stem from trying to use two different comps running xp?? Its problems like this that reafirms my love of OSX.

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