Major Problem - Ipods wont sync

Okay there is kind of a lot here so bear with me. I own two IPod Touches andneither one of them is syncing with ITunes. One is a first or second generationand the other is a brand new 4th generation. I am running windows 7 64 bit. Windows7, iTunes, and the iPod touches are all fully up to date. The IPods aredetected by windows and appear in "my computer." iTunes takes alittle time then pops up with the message "iTunes cannot read the contentsof the iPod "_____". Go to the Summary tab in iPod preferences andclick Restore to restore this iPod to factory settings." normally at thispoint the iPod is not visible in the menu on the left to follow theseinstructions. Once in a while though, the iPod will appear and the Restoreoption does become available, on these rare occasions I get an unknown errormessage (1602 or 1621) and the restore fails.
I tried completely removing all of iTunes and related programs thenreinstalling with no joy. That tells me that there is no problem with iTunesitself. The fact that both iPods have the same problem suggests that it is notthe iPods either. I have tried plugging into every USBport with every combination of chords and iPods with no luck. The 4th gen is literallyhours out of the packaging. There must be some kind of recent windowsupdate or something that has made the iPods incompatible. I tried calling appletech support and they said (after a whole slew of trouble shooting) that whateverthe issue is it is out of their scope.
I have looked all over the place and haven’t found asolution that works yet. I greatly appreciate any assistance you guys can offer.

Yeah, this is a little silly. The problem is with the USB ports somehow. One of the itunes updates made the USB ports not work on some computers. I am not sure what types of computers are affected, but the way I got my iPods out of their recovery loops was to change around USB ports. Since my origional problem, every time I have had to update the software on my ipod I got stuck in recovery loop again. to get out of the loop I just had to trail and error all my usb ports until it finally works. I have had more luck with my external USB hub than the ports built into my computer.
I have a top of the line Toshiba Qosmio x505. I hope this helps!

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My ipod was working fine over a week ago and now it wont work!
I try to sync it and it says it has synced it but only puts on about 200 songs out of 2000- not even that, before it says unknown error and then wipes it all off,and wont sync! someone please help! It isnt the memory as I have 160g!
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