My laptop drains my IPOD battery now and won't sync! (Vista!?)

OK. Here's what happened. I have an old IPOD classic - the U2 edition. Anyway, I recently got rid of my XP desktop in favor of a new Vista laptop and I successfully transferred over my Itunes library onto it and synced my Ipod with this library.
Everything was working fine, my Ipod was syncing and charging on it for a while until recently.
Now when I plug it in to any of the USB ports, Vista will not even recognize it or find it. Even crazier, my Ipod acts like it's charging and shows that it's plugged in and charging - but instead of charging, the USB port drains the battery till I get a low battery or lightning bolt on my Ipod display. (My Ipod will charge on other computers.) I've never seen or heard anything like this!?
I tried creating a separate User account and installing Itunes and drivers again on separate account to see if it would correct issue, but no luck. I don't want to do clean VISTA install.
Anyone have any idea what is going on here??
Thanks in advance!

Figured out my issue. Went into Control Panel and found my Ipod listed as USB Composite device. It was disabled. Re-enabled it and now it's back to working.
Still, wondering though why my laptop drained the battery instead of charging it when it was disabled.

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