IPod touch not opening or showing up in iTunes (yet another one)

I've tried the suggestions that I've read- turn off/then on, copy iTunes helper to applications folder, I've even trashed then reinstalled iTunes but nothing is happening. I thought maybe if I reset my iPod it would help but it only resets settings.
It's charging ok, but I cannot get it to appear in iTunes. So I can't do anything with it. Help???? There must be a simple solution.

An update- the link says to trash the /System/Library/Extensions/AppleMobileDevice.kext AND the /Library/Receipts/AppleMobileDeviceSupport.pkg files (along with iTunes). I did exactly that. It doesn't say anything about reinstalling those two files, only to reinstall iTunes. I assume that means iTunes will reinstall those two files.
After doing all that i see the /System/Library/Extensions/AppleMobileDevice.kext has been reinstalled but the file- /Library/Receipts/AppleMobileDeviceSupport.pkg is not there anymore. Why didn't this one reinstall? Is there something else I need to do?
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