Previous versions of iPod Updater

Is it possible for me to remove previous versions of iPod Updater?
I have 3 or 4 versions dating back to 2004.

I am in "add or remove programs" I have 3 programs named
iPod for Windows 2005-1-11
iPod for Windows 2005-10-12
iPod for Windows 2006-3-23
Can they be removed as well?

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[ http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@@.68bd22ac ]

Gabriel,
Gonna be tough to find iTunes 5 when there's now iTunes 6. You don't want 6??
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How come you don't want the latest versions? Looks like the ones you want are not around any more.
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Over a year ago, my roommate gave me his old iPod. I installed it and iTunes and it worked fine until the battery on the iPod died and everything went nuts with the iPod - iTunes worked fine.
Now i have a new 30 gig video iPod, but I can't get anything working. I had to fight to update iTunes / Quicktime. Basically, I had to run:
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from the command line. I don't know why, but it worked.
Now I have three versions of "iPod for Windows" installed. I click to uninstall any of them (from add / remove programs) and nothing happens.
I wouldn't care, but when I run iTunes with the iPod connected, it says "the software required for communicating with the ipod is not installed correctly."
I've tried everything I can see, but I'm suspicious the three versions of iPod for Windows are conflicting with each other and / or iTunes.
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Hey,
I have posted a thread regarding the same issue.
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