ITunes won't open, IPod won't eject

My mother asked me to unplug her iPod when I got home from work today, so I came to the computer to do so, but iTunes wasn't open. Which was a little strange, because iTunes was open last night, and I always leave it on. She says she didn't do anything to the PC. But you never know.
I tried to open iTunes, but it wouldn't come up. iTunes, iTunes Helper, and iPod Service were all showing up in the task manager, but no program was coming up that could be used. I closed down all unnecessary programs, cleared my caches, prefetch, etc. Tried to open ITunes again. No luck.
Then I did something that, in hindsight, was probably really stupid. I unplugged the iPod. While it still said "do not disconnect." Nothing happened. I plugged it back in, and tried to open iTunes again. Nada.
Then I restarted my computer. And Windows (XP) never finished loading up. So I unplugged the iPod again, restarted, and Windows did come up. I plugged the iPod back in, and iTunes came up automatically. But the iPod was not being recognized.
I closed iTunes and tried to "safely remove hardware" (should have done that to start with,) but I just got an error that the device could not be stopped. Now I still can't open iTunes (even though it's showing in the task manager), and the iPod still says don't disconnect. (It's still plugged in now, though as I said, I unplugged it twice for a few seconds.) A device is showing up in my computer, but I can't access or do anything with/to it - attempting to do so freezes the 'my computer' window.
Have I ruined this thing? What can I do to resolve this issue? I'm using one of the newer 30 gig iPods, and the latest version of iTunes, with Windows XP.
Never had any problems before. I think the power may have flickered off today and restarted the computer, which may have caused some problem or other. Other than that, I don't know much of anything else.

Ahh, it seems that resetting the ipod fixed the problem. Carry on.

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