ITunes refusing to allow sync

After having a system recovery on our computer and losing all music on board, I went back to iTunes, redownloaded music store, etc and hooked up my iPod mini. All was okay as first after I agreed to the "synching of only the purchased music" and they all came thru. I went on to buy some right after that, hooked up my iPod and now iTunes tells me I can only have "one iPod per account and the one I have hooked up aint it." I can wipe out my music and start over but that just isn't an option - Please help!!
Windows XP

So here's the fix:
The handset was logging into my account using @[email protected], the MPB was logged into the same account using my eamil address - even though they were logged into the same account, they didin't seem to want to share purchases.
Simply changing my phone tpo login using my email address, rather than the @me login got everything working properly again.

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