My 80G 6G Ejects Instantly When I Hook Up to iTunes

This has been going on a while now - my 6G iPod plugs in okay sometimes, but more often than not, it takes like 20 tries to connect to iTunes. I plug in the cable, it shows as connecting, and then it ejects - you hear the audio cue for the USB connection, and then the disconnect cue plays and the iPod ejects. What's going on? This cable works fine with my 5G 60G iPod, so I think it's an iPod or an iTunes issue - anyone else have this problem?

hi, i thought i'd offer an alternative solution as i found something that worked for me.
i got my first ipod yesterday (the classic 80gb) and i have had this problem. it kept ejecting itself intantly. well...i managed to update it to 1.1.2 and sync it once but then i had this problem since. i tried different usb ports and also different cables but nothing worked.
this is what finally worked:
before, i always had itunes open and running then plugged in my ipod and i got this problem. i tried closing itunes, and just plugging in my ipod to the computer without itunes running and it didn't eject (nor did it open itunes for me as apparently it is supposed to) so anyway i connected and it held the connection without ejecting, then i opened itunes manually by clicking the icon and it held the connection. at this time i changed the settings to manually sync the ipod and to use it as a hard disc, and since then (only this morning) it has worked ok and not kept ejecting. hopefully it'll continue to work in this way. good luck guys hope it works for you too.
what a crappy company apple must be to have such a high profile product used my millions and it's just plagued with constant problems and bugs. my mobile has to do 3 times as many things as the ipod and it never has any trouble. sort it out apple!!!!!

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