Itunes Not Seeing My Ipod but Is Seen By My Computer

First of all i have spent a good few hours looking at other peoples threads and i can see this seems to be a very common problem. I have a 30gig Video 5G ipod and it was originally installed on my laptop. The problem i have is i dont have much space on that laptop so i decided to move my ipod onto my pc. I have copied over all my itunes folder and its now installed and working on my pc.
The problem is my ipod is not seen by itunes and therefore i cant do anything with it. I have tested it again on the laptop to determine its deffo a computer problem and it worked fine on there. Both Pc and Laptop are using the latest versions of itunes,
I have tried the various methods that have been explained and still no joy. I have even restored my pc back to the orig installation date with no joy.
I am hoping there is a solution as i dont want to have to re-install windows but its not looking like i have much choice.
I bought this ipod of a colleague and he has had the ipod installed on more than one pc. Is it possible that the ipod has reached its limit of pc's it can be assigned too.
I await your repsonse and thanks in advance
Andy

There is an Apple article on trouble shooting this problem, have you tried it?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93716

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