Ipod won't sync - do not disconnect error

I tried to load some new songs onto my nano (just before I went on holiday) and they wouldn't appear so I naturally went through the 5Rs. Net result, not only will songs still not appear on the nano, I now have no songs at all on it!
Here's what currently happens. I connect the ipod to the laptop. itunes boots up and treats the ipod as "new" i.e.: asks to confirm the name etc. It then does the whole sync thing, taking ages, before confirming that sync has completed ok. Meanwhile the ipod is showing the "do not disconnect" screen. Here's where the trouble starts. The ipod remains on this screen - even though itunes says that the sync is complete. By clicking on the disconnect button from within itunes, itunes seems to lock for a long while until (eventually) the ipod is released and disappears from within itunes.
So, what I can determine is that the ipod and itunes can "talk" to each other but somewhere along the line they're getting their wires crossed. Seems to be some form of corruption, but despite reading these forums and the Apple "help" pages, I've not been able to resolve it.
Any ideas?

The answer was given to me by Kylene. It was due to a conflict in drive naming by Windows. See the attached:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93499#changedrive

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