No iPod is recognized by my iMac

Recently my my iMac stopped recognizing my fifth generation iPod with video. It is not found by iTunes or the finder. This happened after I tried to connect my sister-in-law's third generation Nano. I'm not sure why that would cause this to happen, but that's when things got funny and so I thought I'd put that on the table. My iMac will now not recognize any iPod -my fifth generation, my wife's second generation Nano or my sister-in-law's third generation Nano.
I've tried the usual remedies (the five R's) but to no avail. I haven't actually uninstalled and then reinstalled iTunes because I don't have everything backed up and I don't want to lose anything. Can I do this, though? Can I drag iTunes into the trash and then just download and reinstall iTunes? Will that work? Will I lose my library (or anything in it) in the process?
I'm looking forward to getting an iPhone for my birthday in a month, but now I'm afraid that my iMac won't recognize it.
2 GHz Intel Core Duo with 1 GB ram
OS X 10.4.10
iTunes 7.4.2 (4)

No, it would have no impact at all.
You could have a corrupted, or missing, iPodDriver.kext file. 3 ways to replace it:
1. Do an archive and restore
2. Use a 3rd party extractor and get it from your install disk
3. Copy it from another Mac running Tiger.
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