ITunes recongnizes iPod touch as iPhone - won't sync

I have an intel-based Macbook running Leopard 10.5.2, and today when I connected my iPod touch to iTunes, the wheel started spinning, which never happens, and then I got an error message saying that the iPod won't sync because it "timed out." Okay. Then I disconnect my iPod, power it off, restart my Mac, and try it again. This time, I get a message saying that iTunes didn't recognized this "iPhone". Help?

Hi I have the Ipod touch 8gb with the software update i just upgrade to leopard yesterday and plug in my ipod it charged but that was it. So i found here several people reinstalled Itunes due to Apple installer that was like uninstalled during leopard so i reinstalled Itunes and it works perfect now Hope it does the same for you.

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