ITunes refuses to acknowledge ipod

I have a 3rd Gen iPod and have been relatively happy with it, until today, when I connected it to its USB cable and iTunes told me that Gremlin had been corrupted & I should re-connect him; no big deal. I did, then re-connected him as I usually do. Unfortunately, iTunes now refuses to admit Gremlin is there. Gremlin says he is syncing, my desktop has his icon, but no pod when I look at the Devices menu. I have
1)restarted pod. Icon re-appears on desktop, Gremlin believes he is syncing, iTunes is still not caring.
2)changed USB cable from hub to laptop directly. No change.
3)I have tried connecting him with one of the other pods USB cables: no dice.
4)changed the port in the USB hub. Nope.
I am running the latest version of iTunes already, and can't really restore him since iTunes won't recognize him. This is worse than the time Gremlin believed he was in Cardiff, no matter what his clock settings said; especially since I use him to run all my podcasts.

Hello Sara,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
It sounds like you have tried most of the suggestions in this article, but it wouldn't hurt to check the rest of them.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1410
Otherwise, several users who have experienced this same issue were able to reformat their iPod via *Disk Utility* and doing so helped iTunes recognize the iPod after the reformat was complete. For instructions on how to do this, see this article of mine.
http://b-rockprogramming.blogspot.com/p/ipoditunes-tutorials-and.html
B-rock

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