Power surge on hub point

I have a 60GB Ipod colour and use it to save my photos. I have just come back from Athens - which supplies 260v/50Hz power. Now I am back in England (240V/50Hz), I get an error when I plug the Ipod into my Win XP Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop. The error is: Power surge on hub point. There is an instruction to click on the error notice, but the mouse is disabled while this notice is displayed. The Ipod is working fine and is showing all the pics I took in Athens and saved to it, as well as playing the music I downloaded to it before I left for Greece. The Ipod is using the latest V7.0.2 software. I have performed a reset by switching the Hold key, as well as a reboot using the Menu/centre switch. No result. Any ideas, please?

Sorted!
I'm not sure how this worked, but the Ipod is working fine on the port now. I changed to mouse from the hub to the PC, so I could click the notice when it came up, AND I put the Ipod on the charger until the Ipod said CHARGED.
I have plugged the Ipod back into the hub and it's been accepted, with no errors. AND I have access to my pics - thank goodness!

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This sounds like your computers problem then and not apples.
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