Nano Second generation, windows vista home premium NOT RECOGNIZEING IPOD!

Question

Ok this has been driving me CRAZY for the last week. I've tried EVERYTHING that apple has on their support site. I've tried anything that I thought would work from this support forum. NOTHING has worked. I recently built this computer. Installed all the drivers for the mother board. Everything is working fine. My mouse, printer, USB speakers. ALL work fine. Just my Ipod and my Cell phone are not being recognized by windows, and my ipod by itunes. I think my cell might be fixed by fixing the ipod problem, as it may be the similar problem.
Anyways, I saw a post about disconnecting your printer and reconnecting your ipod. I hear the printer disconnect ( in the device manager it shows the printer as a mass storage device), but the ipod still dont show.
When I connect my IPOD to my usb cable, it will show on the IPOD that its either trying to charge, or in the case at the moment, that its fully charged ( the battery with the plug in it). But STILL wont show anywhere in my computer. I may take one of my cdroms out of my new build and put it back in my old computer, TRY to see if my ipod works on that computer ( which it did before I built this new computer and had all these problems).
AGAIN, I've done EVERYTHING on the support site (main), this support site ( most of anything I could find for vista, let alone home premium), anything that I could think of which wasnt much else that was already covered. ANY help would be VERY appreciated. ALSO, is it just me or is there no where to email apple and have them give you some FREE tech support? Or do they want more $$ from consumers? Sorry, Im just venting and Im hungry thanks guys

Answer 1

Ok, Update. IPOD still not working. I also recently downloaded Ventrilo (off topic but may have some value here) and tried to run it. Needless to say it dont work. So I went to THEIR troubleshooting forum and found that my new MOBO with Nforce Network manager has a problem with allowing vent to run properly. Im not sure if ALL of you have a Nvidia mainboard with Nforce software on it. But, Mine does and what THEY (the vent forum) say is to delete that piece of the software and everything should work great (vent). My problem is, if I delete the network manager. My internet stops working. :/ Hopefully evga ( my main board) responds to me with a answer to WHY my internet stops working, and how to fix it without installing the network manager. But if anyone here has any tips to solve that problem, Id really appreciate it. since my ipod is basically useless now as it is.
O AND BY THE WAY! I downloaded iTunes 8, same problem. So Im thinking it may very well be that software/driver (network manager) thats causing my problem. Ill let you all know what they say. Also If anyone else who has this problem also uses nforce chipset / network driver, and is having this problem. Let us know. Maybe we can all email nvidia and tell them how they are great at some things but need to fire all their division of network manager creators. Because they obviously are not doing their job.