ITunes won't recognize iPod after trying to update to iOS 5?

Today I tried updating to iOS 5, and I had to update to iTunes 10.5, so while the update was downloading, I left my room, when I came back, iTunes said it was finished and I then decided to update my iPod to iOS 5.I had then decided to leave my room and when I came back, iTunes wasn't running anymore and my iPod had the "USB to iTunes" screen, so I tried plug in my iPod to my computer and since I'm on Windows XP, it then gave me the error noise and said that this driver didn't exsist, so I tried updating my drivers and it ended up not working, so then I tried re-installing iTunes 10.5 and then I got another message saying "Bonjour Services failed to install" then it said "Bonjour Services failed to start" then later in the installation it said "Apple Mobile Support failed to Start"
So now my iPod is stuck on that screen and my iTunes won't work.
*I'm running Windows XP 32-bit
*I have a iPod Touch 4th Gen 32gb
*I have not tried to jailbreak or do anything except use iTunes to import music

Same here: junk Apple upgrade has stopped me accessing many apps. It appears to have stalled out.
Is this the Steve Jobs legacy?
"The iPod ------- could not be synced because the sync session failed to start."
What sort of error message is that?
It has just been through a complete restore and given the same message!
It has also lost a load of Apps that I have paid for and cannot use, nevermind material bought from the Apple Store.
What sort of rip off artists are these Apple dead beats?
Do I have to pay twice when they upgrade my Ipod?

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I did not have a syncservices file Carolyn mentioned.
So I hunted around and found a document suggesting to delete the ipod.plist file and the isync.plist file in the preferences directory.
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