Pc not recognizing iPod

can someone please help?!? It was weird, I was buying a movie on iTunes and kept waiting for menu on iTunes to show that my iPod was connected. After realizing it wasn't plugged in (which was pretty stupid, i thought it'd been charging all night)I re-plugged it in. But since then all I've gotten was a message: The USB Device is not Recognized: One of the USB
devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and this computer does not recognized it.
What do I do?? Please, HEELPP!!

Try with the iPod in forced disk mode.
Putting iPod into disk mode.
Still no joy, see these.
iTunes 7 doesn't recognize the iPod.
Your Windows PC doesn't recognize iPod</font color</a>.
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