Shuffle shows in explorer, works on iBook, not in iTunes on XP

My wife has a shuffle, my iPod photo works/updates etc. on the PC, the shuffle shows up fine in Explorer and I can browse it. I also plugged it into my iBook, shows up fine there too and says it's linked to the other computer and shows it as formatted FAT32, I even updated it via the mac iPod updater, but my music library is on the PC.
I've updated the software, rebooted, reset the shuffle, etc. but the PC iPod updater and iTunes will not recognize it. I don't think the shuffle is defective, I think the software to recognize shuffles has bugs.
Can anyone help? Why won't it just let you pick the drive letter, why must it autodetect?

more weirdness, works in my other PC, this one has a ton of USB devices and drive letters taken up, I stopped every exe and service but the critical ones, and it still doesn't work in this one with all the songs.
winamp can send songs to it, I guess I'll just use that.

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