My IPod won't accept my verified AppleID, what do I do?

I am very new to Apple products (Aside from using Macs in  ), and just got my first Ipod yesterday. I started my AppleID with my email address like anyone else and verified it. Briefly though, today I switched it to another email address I have. Finally deciding against it, I decided to switch back to the original email address I had used when I got it yesterday. But when I switched it, Itunes kept asking me to verify my AppleID through the original email. I had already done this when I started my account, so I could not do it again. Now I can't buy or download anything because my ITunes or my IPod keeps demanding I verify something that has been previously been verified. What can I do? I can download stuff on my computer through ITunes, but it doesn't work on my IPod. This *****...

The drive is not grabbing the discs?
Is the drive just not letting you insert the discs?
There is one thing you can try before going the external drive direction.
The first thing that I would attempt is to reset the optical drive’s eject mechanism. To do this, you’ll need to connect a wired, USB mouse to your computer. Then, tell your iMac to shut down. Once the machine is powered off, hold your mouse button down and re-power your iMac.
Keep the mouse button held down until you reach the login window. You should hear the optical drive perform one full eject cycle. At that point, you can release the mouse button, log in, and try insert a disk in the drive.
If this doesn't work, the cost of repairing the original drive maybe comparable or, most likely, more expensive to repair than just adding an external optical drive. And there is no guarantee that the internal optical drive won't fail, again, as the slot loading drives in iMacs have a tendency toward premature failure. It is not a very good drive to begin with and optical drives don't really like being mounted in a upright, vertical mounting position.
With external optical drives, there are many price and quality levels. You can purchase a cheap drive knowing that in less than a couple of years, it could fail and need a new replacement OR purchase a more expensive , but better quality drive that is more durable and designed to last longer.

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