My Ipod Touch can not be recognised by itunes

I installed the latest version of itunes, as I connect my Ipod touch I receive a message "An iphone has been detected, but it could not be identified properly. Please disconnect and reconnect iPhone, then try again."
So does anybody know how can I identify my Ipod touch as Ipod touch to itunes?
I tried all the suggestion on support page. Nothing works:( Please I need help!!!!

I've had my iPod Touch for a couple of months now and I have this same problem. If you don't want to hear my rant then just skip this one.
First, the praise. Once you get music on the device it is a *beautiful, very cool* machine. This is the first Apple product I have ever owned. I came to the table with the utmost respect for all the success Apple has had and the clever innovations those folks have brought to the market place.
Alas, I am sorely disappointed in my experience. It's primarily that the ability to connect the iPod to iTunes (on Windows XP Pro) is pure unadulterated crap that works properly about 20% of the time. iTunes works great. The iPod works great with the content that it already has. But the connection between the two has utterly destroyed my respect for Apple's engineering capabilities.
Most of the time the iPod won't connect to iTunes even though I try 4 different USB ports.
It is not uncommon to get error messages from iTunes, when it finally sees that something is connected, about not be able to successfully connect to the iPhone. Um, it's not an iPhone. Maybe that's where the confusion lies?
A good bit of the album artwork on the iPod is scrambled even though it is correct in iTunes.
800 songs takes several hours to sync down to the iPod over USB 2.0 ... if I can ever get it connected.
What an embarrassment for a company that is known the world over for giving outstanding user experience.
My little 512MB Sansa MP3 never gives me a minute of trouble. The one time that it did, Sansa just took my word that it was still under warranty (yeah, they could probably tell from the serial number) and replaced it. No fuss, no muss.
I do hope Apple will get this straightened out. I was not likely to ever buy an Apple product prior to this. This experience with the Touch has just hardened that position.

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