ITunes forcing iPod restore that doesn't work...

Ever since I upgraded to the new iTunes, when I plug in my iPod nano, iTunes give a message that "iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode. You must restore this iPod before it can be used with iTunes". So I restore it, and it restarts and the whole thing starts again! With the exact message and the exact same process.
I've tried Apple's 5-step process, but that doesn't work, so now I'm stuck with an empty iPod that doesn't load.
Any ideas???

IT's the new version of I tunes. Theres something screwy with 7.6 I got the new 80 gig Ipod classic with video. I updated I tunes, and then uploaded my music. Everything was fine until i updated my ipod with more music that i had. A few hours later I was listening to music when all of a sudden it stopped playing. I looked and My I pod had frozen. So I did a reset and then it came up to the thing were it says it needs to be restored. I've done that like twenty times and it still says the same **** thing...
A piece of advice... don't listen to anyone who tells you to change the drive letter (it tells you how to on this site as well) it doesn't work.
Do try to restore on a friends Itunes that is prior to 7.6. I hear that really works.

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