New ipod, but running old itunes....

Hello!
wondered if anybody could help with my problem. I had trouble a while back updating to itunes 7, basically it wouldn't open or run on my pc. so I reverted back to my older itunes and everything has been fine, running 4 ipods on the pc.
But my brother has just got a new ipod and it says it needs itunes 7 or newer to be able to run and it can't dock in my itunes 6.0.5.02. I updated to a newer itunes just to see if it would run on my pc but it still doesnt.
Can anybody see a way around this?
cheers for any help, sam.

thanks for your reply, I decided to download and try media monkey before reading your reply, my brothers happy to use this and the rest of us can carry on with the older itunes.
but thanks for your help anyway
sam

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