The never-ending cycle of restoring my iPod...

I got a new iPod for Christmas (well, me and a million other people), and when I plugged it into my computer and iTunes (7.0.2.16), I was told that it was in recovery mode and I had to restore it. So I did.
After it was restored, I plugged it back in (after choosing a language) and I was again told it was in recovery mode and I had to restore it. So I did again. I repeated the process yet again, and still nothing changed. How can I finally make this thing work? It's brand new, not used or anything - all I did before plugging it in was turn it on, scroll through some menus, and turn it off.

I've had iTunes for a couple of years now; it was updated to the current version before I bought the iPod.
After restoring all of this, I still can't put any music on. When I drag and drop a song, a playlist, or a group of highlighted songs onto the iPod, iTunes stops responding for a short while and then nothing happens. If I choose to eject my iPod and then disconnect it once it is safe to, there are no songs on it - and plugging it back in brings up the error message about recovery mode and how I must restore the iPod.

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iTunes
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