Please help me get my 3rd Gen talking to XP

Hi all,
I'm a newbie to this, and i'm sure this has probably been covered before but i am completely stuck.
A friend gave me his 10gig 3rd gen iPod for Christmas (he has upgraded to a touch). It is MAC formatted at present, but i am a PC user.
I planned on following the restore and update option, and connected it via one of the usb ports (i bought a USB cable as the PC does not have firewire), but windows just displays a 'unrecognised' message and iTunes doesn't see it at all.
It also knocks out the BT wireless adapter i have plugged into one of the other USB ports.
Things i have tried so far;
1) several restarts
2) Using diff usb ports
3) connecting cable and iPod to my works laptop. Herein lies the irony...Connects up fine to the works laptop, however...the locked network settings mean that the laptop cannot access my home router, so this is just a test option.
4) trawled through pages of support on the Apple pages.
Can anyone help me?
Specs for reference;
HP 1.8 Celeron with 700+ RAM (can't remember the exact number)
iTunes 7.5
6*USB 2.0 Ports.
BT USB Wireless network adapter
Windows XP Home SP2 (fully updated with ALL fixes/patches etc.)
Please help,

The 3rd Gen iPod can only handle restores/upgrades/etc. through FireWire. They can only charge via FW too.

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