Nano Gets Recognized by iTunes - Once

The leapfrog of hand-me-downs ended up with my son getting my wife's Nano. It hadn't been used in a while, but the "trick" that's being done is that iTunes (current) recognizes the Nano when it's plugged in, updates it, but once an update takes place iTunes is willing to talk to the Nano, but the Nano no longer appears to be willing to make a connection. It sits at its main menu and does nothing until it puts itself to sleep.
I've updated the Nano to the current 1.3 (which had to be done from another machine, since I couldn't get through the second connection after the plugging in did an update), done a restore, done a couple reboots, etc. Nothing has changed the behavior. Plug the Nano in, do something as innoccuous as change the name of the owner in iTunes (which kicks off another full update!), and contact is never established with the Nano.
Thanks.

Thats the smae thing thats wrong with mine, except I have Windows XP

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