ITouch not recognizing headphones?

I've had my 8GB itouch for about a year and a half now and in that year I've run through quite a few pairs of headphones. Usually I just assume I've burned them out and buy another pair, but recently another pair of good quality died on me ,audio always goes dead in the left bud, after only a month. Because of the holiday season I asked to use my Father's extra earphones to avoid the store and was surprised to learn that his were broken exactly like mine as well. My dad took them back, told me they worked fine with his ipod, and I tested them with my computer, they worked perfectly until I tried to plug them into my itouch where they went dead in the left ear again.
I'm wondering if something is wrong with my itouch and if there is a solution that doesn't involve warranty service, mine has run out,or if it's just a fluke and the headphones are to blame.
Thanks in advance.
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I'm this close to throwing this faulty thing against the wall...
Tell us how that works for you.
No, really, I'm with Anna on this: your post is unclear and you are being impatient.
When I waited 2 hours for it to finish, it would register my touches.
I read this to be saying, your iPod touch (not a iTouch, which is an Italian iPhone knockoff) sat there for 2 hours saying it was trying to move your music to your iPod. That is way, way, way too long. Even filling the entire 32G -- if you had that much in songs, videos, games, etc. -- would not take that long. So, something is not right.
I think your XP machine does see your iPod; when you plug it in it starts iTunes, or when you start iTunes it sees the iPod. Is this true?
Try everything it says to do here: iPod touch Troubleshooting Assistant. Try each thing it tells you to do. Then report back here.
-fred
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