New IPOD 30 gig not seen by one PC is seen by another PC

Hello. I have an IPOD 30 gig that I bought for my son for christmas. It has been working fine for about 3 weeks on my main PC at home. Over the last 1-2 weeks the same PC is no longer "seeing" the IPOD. This same PC is "seeing" and is able to sync with another IPOD, a 4 gig NANO, just fine. The other day I finally had a chance to try to fix it by following all of the posts about 5 Rs etc and the PC is still being difficult, I have tested it on all of my USB ports built in to the PC and on one built into the HP printer, none see the IPOD. I have tried to format it using the HP format USB device tool, but since the IPOD is not seen by the PC it does not allow a format to occur. The IPOD does charge when plugged into the USB port but that is all it does.
So the other day I finally had a moment to test using my laptop, and the stinking IPOD worked as it should, the laptop could "see" the IPOD and Itunes could sync with it fine. I then retested the IPOD to the main PC and it is still not working at all.
Can someone give me a new direction to take to help me make my son happy again?
Thanks,
Larry

hi Pinz!
it just recognizes an Unknown USB device and doesn't find any Driver for iPod.
hmmm. the messages are explicitly mentioning drivers? if so, let's try the techniques in this MarkJones post:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1169155&#1169155
keep us posted.
love, b

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