ITunes will not show ipod!!!!! tried everything as suggested!

Hello, bought a new 4gb nano and after installing everyting as instruction suggest, nothing works. Windows shows ipod, but itunes does not. I see I'm not the only one with this problem, but what else can be done, is there anyone to talk to?(phone)? I didnt know that i needed a degree from MIT to use this. six hours of trying and 250 spent, dont know if this is worth it or not!
Windows XP

Hi bfos,
Have you seen this post:
iPod Shows Up in Windows but not iTunes
good luck,
maz

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I just bought an Ipod as what tryingto get itunes to load for 5 hours last Friday night and another 4 hours on Saturday til my head exploaded
I then installed an older version of itunes and it worked but the new version didn't
In the end I re-installed XP home as a "repair" not clean install so that I wouldn't loose any work on my PC and within 40 minutes or so whatever was missing from my PC was installed and itunes 6 went on with no problem
My advise is don't go round the houses like I did, just "repair" your XP installation and it's done
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