ITunes 5.0.1 still won't recognize iPod shuffle

This is really getting old.

Same problem. I didn't see your earlier posting. I don't want my computer to erase my Shuffle, so it is set to manual. When I plug the Shuffle into the USB port, I get an alert asking if I really want to connect, and do I want to erase everything? When I answer "no" the iTunes startup continues, but no mounted image of the Shuffle appears. Once I answered "yes" deliberately, and of course erased everything. This time the Shuffle icon appeared in iTunes, and I was allowed to spend half an hour or so choosing new songs and loading them. The Shuffle works fine, but iTunes 5.01 doesn't. I had the same result with two computers, a Powerbook 12 with OSC 10.4.2 re-installed yesterday (a clean install, of course, takes many hours), and a PowerPC G5. Please, please, won't somebody start a computer company for the rest of us--it is such a powerful idea, and I'm sure someone can do it right.

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"Not recognized by OS X or Windows XP -- charges and plays fine, though"
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1572062&tstart=0
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1508538&tstart=15
"constantly blinking orange light; no longer recognized by computer"
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