My Ipod is Crazy

I have an 20G Ipod, it worked perfectly until yesteday, when I tried to update the Ipod software with the 01/10/2006 version. As soon as I hit update it went crazy. For starters I got "Ipod Manager Internal Error", in the knowledge data base it says it happens because there is conflict between versions of Ipod and ITunes. So I downloaded a newer version of ITunes. Now I get all sosrts of messages. "Formatting Failure. Disk Error", "Firmware Update Failure. Disk Write Error", "Can't Mount Ipod", and other weird messages. The update cannot fomat ipod, it gives error. It has version 1.2 installed, (last time i could turn it on), I don't know what it has now. All this happened as soon as tried to update the sofware from 2005/26/06 to 2006/10/01. Now all I have File with an Excamation Mark, and when I plug it in the PC (Windows XP) it treats it as new hardware, it even says Unknown sometimes, others the Ipod shows the do "Do not Disconnect" red flashing sign, but not in the thick red circble, but in a smaller and narrower red circle, probably an older version. I can't go back to the older version either, it won't let me. The thing is I am completely lost.
Toshiba A75 S206 Windows XP Notebook
Toshiba A75 S206 Windows XP Notebook
Toshiba A75 S206 Windows XP Notebook

It's me again, but with the answer, the new version (2006/01/10) does not work, what I did was uninstall all Ipod and ITunes software, and reinstall the original CD, after that I downloaded the newer ITunes and it worked fine. One thing, I saved the ITunes folder in My Music to the desktop and put it back when I downloaded the newer ITunes, that way I didn't lose all the saved information in the library.
Hope this is usful to someone, it took me quite a while to figure it out.
Do not update the IPOD software, it does not work.
Good luck
Toshiba A75 S206 Windows XP Notebook
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