Ipod will not appear in windows or itunes, but is definately there

Hi,
My ipod touch 64gb 3rd gen stopped appearing in itunes but still in windows. I spoke to an apple support person on the phone and we followed lots of different steps. I was told to send it off for repair/to be looked at. Apple said it was fine and sent it back to me. By this point, I had restored the ipod to factory settings via another pc and lost all my data on it.
After they sent it back, however, windows vista now also refuses to acknowledge that there is an ipod connected. I have followed all the support website steps to no avail.
Certain things make me think the pc is recognising the ipod. For instance, when I connect the ipod touch, itunes will sometimes automatically load itself up. Also, when I connect the ipod I notice in the device manager of my pc it will load the apple mobile device usb driver.
I'm fairly certain it is an issue with my computer as the ipod is recognised on other computers.
Can anyone help?

My phone did the same thing too yesterday after I took a picture. So this morning I called the tech support at my cell provider.
The tech asked me to press the sleep/ wake button (button on top of phone) and the home button at the same time for about 5-10 seconds to see if there was a reaction from the phone. Low battery showed up even though I had 60+ % when the phone acted up.
He told me the 3GS freezes sometimes and the screen will go blank, but the phone will drain the battery as if it's on the entire time. By pressing the 2 buttons, it resets the phone and should be okay.
My phone seems to be okay now. See if that works for you. Hope it helps.

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