My computer doesn't recognize my ipod. Help.

I have an ipod 3 and an HP Windows Vista computer. 5 months ago my USB cable was starting to break and sometimes not work, so I desided to buy a new one. I went to Mexico for a family visit (where I'm from) and desided to buy one there while I was at it. But the brand was not apple. When I came back home I used the new USB cable and it worked fine, better than fine, actually, for two months at least, two weeks ago whenever I connected my ipod to the computer many different things started to happened each time:
My computer would send me a message saying "USB Device Not Regognized. 'One of the USB devices conected to this computer has malfunctioned and windows does not recognize it'" (The most common. Happens 5 of every 6 times I conect my ipod) Also I have my ipod set to download all the images from the ipod to computer whenever I saved images in my ipod with "windows Photo Gallery" and even if my computer recognizes the ipod, windows gallery recognizes it too but it doesn't dowload the images because it says there's an error.
For some miracle the computer recognized the ipod but when itunes opens it freezes
If Itunes works for some other miracle itunes tells me the ipod could not be recognized because there was an error from the iphone (when it's not even a iphone)
So I'd really need your help. Is it my computer, my ipod or itunes? Or just what's going on? 'Cause it had all been working fine for me before and this issue started out of nowhere. PLEASE and thank you.

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