Need help restoring MAC iPod

I had accidently formatted a MAC iPod nano on a windows computer. Now my MAC computer will not recognize the nano. The mac will not allow me to restore the nano. Please help.
When I plug the nano in to my MAC it goes through 15 second cycles of an alert about an ID and password that is no longer accepted by the iPod in order to restore it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
MA004LL   Mac OS X (10.3)  

I got around this very issue by using Disk Utility to format my 20GB 'click wheel' iPod choosing Mac OS Extended (journaled) for Volume Format. Reformat will will erase all data on the iPod, so don't do this if you have data on the iPod you need to retain.
After my iPod was reformatted, iTunes 7.02 still would not perform a Restore, so I used an old verion of iPod Updater 2004-08-06 to successfully Restore to 3.01.
Check /Application/Utilities/iPod Software Updaters for past release levels of iPod Software Updater that may still be on your hard drive.
I then used iPod Updater 2006-06-28 to successfully Restore a second time to the current 3.1.1 as iTunes 7.02 still would not Restore to the current version.
Hope this helps.
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