My iPod is screwed up beyond all realization. Help, please.

Okay, so, my iPod worked as clean as a whistle, once upon a time. I have been using iPods on my windows computer sucessfully for about 2 years now. I attempted loading too many songs onto my iPod at once, and it froze. I reset it and saw that I needed to restore my iPod. I restored it, and then attempted to add all of my songs again. The program I was using to do it (winamp) froze. So, I restored my iPod again and attempted using iTunes. It froze again. I attempted it again with iTunes (after restoring it for a third time), in smaller partitions, however it still froze. I gave up for a while. I came back to attempt again, a few weeks later. The iPod displayed the sad emoticon, and then restarted, and got caught in an endless loop of restarting and sad-faceing. Upon connecting my iPod to my computer, it takes about 2 hours for my computer to recognise that there is SOMETHING attached to the computer, and then anytime I try to look at the device, explorer freezes. Also, I cannot simply restore my iPod because the updater utility freezes when loaded. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling all of my iPod software, to no avail. Also, whenever my iPod is connected to my computer, my audio drivers fail and my computer cannot start up. The "Do Not disconnect" symbol remains on the iPod for about an hour after it is disconnected. What should I do? I am stubborn enough and lazy enough that I don't want to just get a new one. Does anyone know of a third party utility I can use to solve my problems? And solutions at all to my problems? Thank you for reading this wall 'o text, by the way.
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