ITunes 7 wont recognize iPod(s) any more

Hi there !
Since upgrading to iTunes 7 I've found that iTunes fails to recognize my iPods 90% of the time, and the 10% it does find it, it will disconnect after a few seconds and/or report an error with it. Generally this then causes the iPod to lock up and need a reset.
I have two iPods (2nd gen 20gb and 5th gen 80gb)and they both show similar symptoms on different machines (1 iPod is used exclusively by one PC and the same for the other one).
Initially the 80gb worked fine for a few days, but after fitting a USB mouse things started to go wrong (may be a coincedence but this was the only change I could see). I guess perhaps this caused devices to be reordered on the USB bus and iTunes 7 can't cope with this ?? Removing the mouse though has not fixed the issue.
The 2nd gen 20gb never really worked from the initial upgrade to iTunes 7. Random disconnects and hangs when syncing and generally not showing up in iTunes (could see it in Windows explorer and manually copy files across fine)
In desperation I removed iTunes 7 and went back to version 6 and everything is working fine again !!
Switching back to iTunes 6 just meant I had to wait whilst 60gb of music was rescanned into a library It also means I can't play games on my nice new 80gb iPod which is annoying but I can live with this for a little while...I just hope when all the bugs are ironed out I won't have to pay for the games again !
On the plus side, iTunes 6 is a lot faster than iTunes 7 so I guess in a small way I should be happy.
Has anyone had similar experiences with iTunes 7 not recognizing their iPod ?
Cheers
Ted
P.S. I've been through all the troubleshooting guides about resetting, restoring iPods, all cables are secure and have Terminal Services running in my services etc. so I'm 100% sure everything is setup fine. The problem is the fact that iTunes 7 or more acurately the new ipodserver.exe / ipodhelper.exe are junk.
2ng gen & 5th gen Windows XP
Windows XP

Have you looked at these:
iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Device not recognized in iTunes for Mac OS X
Mac OS X v10.6 or later: iOS device not recognized in iTunes after restart
(this may apply but you did not say what OSX you are running)

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