Not visible in iTunes

A while ago I connected my girlfriend's ipod to my mac, and it asked "do you want to erase it" (I said no) and "make this dialog never appear again" (I said yes.)
Now I have a new iPod, and when I plug it in, it appears in the OS but not in iTunes. All the helpful info on the Apple website ends up saying things like "plug it in, when it appears in the source list in iTunes..." but it doesn't. Probably because of what I did long ago. And there's nothing visible in iTunes preferences to undo my "ignore unknown ipods" selection. If I plug it in to a different computer it appears just fine in Mac OS and in iTunes. All my software is up to date, yadda yadda.
mini   Mac OS X (10.4.10)  

Probably trashing the "plist" file will do it for you.
With iTunes NOT open, locate the com.apple.iTunesHelper.plist file. It's in
HD/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences
This is the file that maintains your iPhoto preferences. Actually, don't trash it immediately just in case something goes wrong and you want to put it back where it was. Put it on the desktop and trash it tomorrow.
After taking the plist file out of the Preferences folder, start up iTunes. A new plist will be created with all prefs set to default so be prepared to check the prefs to confirm that they're set the way that you want.
Now, connect the iPod and see what happens.

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