ITunes suddenly thinks my iPod is the same as my wifes

Hi, my wife and I have had Video iPods for about 3 months now, both using the same computer and the same iTunes program of course, and have had no problem keeping thing serperated as far what each of us wants on our iPod and the automatic updating we've set up when we plug in our respective iPods, but the other, she unplugged hers, the white iPod icon and information went off of iTunes, I plugged in my black iPod, and it popped up with a black iCon but her information and the name of her iPod, not mine! Any idea why this happened or what we can do about it? My ipod won't play any songs now, I start one up, and it skips to the next one, then the next one, and so on. If I pause it before it can skip to the next song, the artwork beside the song I've stopped it on is never the correct artwork, always from another band. I'm about to try just totally restoreing my iPod and starting all over again, but how can we keep this from happening again? We'd appreciate any suggestions.

hiya!
it's a bit of a kinky possibility, but it's plausible that you've got a weird version of this problem:
Windows confuses iPod with network drive and may keep iPod from mounting or songs may seem to disappear
(it would be a "doubled" version of this problem. Windows starts misidentifying the white one as the other drive, and an ipod_control folder makes its way onto the other drive. then when you plug in the black one, you get the confusion again, Windows sees the ipod_control folder on the other drive, and ends up thinking that that's the white one.)
probably best to warn you that i've only seen one confirmed case so far of a doubled drive letter confusion causing an identity swap.
love, b

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