Ipod wont show up in windows or itunes

Just bought a 30gig vid. ipod and installed latest version of itunes. I tried to transfer songs but I can't even do that because my ipod, even though connected via USB cable, won't show up in "My Computer" or on itunes. I tried to reinstall itunes but it said can't stop ipod services. Same thing happened when I tried to repair it and restarting the comp doesn't help.
PS It lets me charge when plugged in my usb which is not a 2.0
Any suggestions?

yea, i installed latest version of itunes, but even if i wanted to, my comp won't let me repair or uninstall itunes via control panel nor using the setup.exe (it says that ipod services cannot be stopped) i tried to stop the services manually but it didn't work either.

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