ITunes crshes when i connect 5th gen iPod 30 gig...

iTunes wants to close when I connect my iPod(5th generation 30 gig w/ video) to my (Windows Vista) PC...

It's not a touch. These are freshly installed Windows 7 computers. Basically I lost everything on my iPhone and had to start from scratch anyways: songs and apps. I also don't have any podcast subscribed to.
The iPod Video 5th Gen has been zero written with Killdisk, then formatted in 16kb FAT32, then restored with iTunes. But as soon as you disconnect and then reconnect, iTunes loses face and crashes.
Like I said, this happened just after the iTunes update that happened like yesterday. I also tried to uninstall, then run a registry cleaner and then re-installed. Still nothing. As far as I can see, so far I think this is a problem with the new iTunes. I found a place to get an older version, I will uninstall 9.0.3 and re-install 9.0.2.
Update: reverting back didn't work.
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