Tried everything, still doens't work

Question

So I had a original silver shuffle which was stolen. I loved it, so I bought another one. This one is green.
My original original memory stick style iPod Shuffle never had a single issue beyond moisture... these new iPod Shuffle are just pieces of junk? Or is it just me?
My original Silver Shuffle took me hours to setup and get it to function correctly. I posted for help on the boards here, and got a little. Finally found a post about shutting down iPod service, using the Reset tool, and then a sneaky Enable Disk Use fix. After 3 tries that finally worked for the Silver iPod.
My new Green iPod does not work at all. I've tried all the tricks I can find here on Apple's website and nothing helps.
My Green iPod is recognized by both iTunes and Windows when I plug it in. A window opens up to show me disk contents, which is empty. This is strange as the iPod has NOT been set for Disk use yet, and my iPod Service is running. iTunes sees the iPod and lists it in the sidebar. Any attempt to update, load songs to, change settings on the iPod results in an almost total lockup of iTunes. It freezes for 1 to 2 minutes, and then comes back and reports all is well.
When I then try to copy songs, it tells me the disk can't be found. At this point the iPod is gone from My Computer, but the USB safe eject still shows the device as needing to be ejected, and iTunes still shows the iPod attached.
Anyone out there with a suggestion on how to get this working? I've tried it on a Macbook also... still no luck. I was able to get one song on it once... the song played and all seemed well but further transfer of tunes to the Shuffle crashed it out again.
Help!

Answer 1

I tried the iTunes reset, tried the stand alone reset as well... Neither worked. I did SOMEthing later on and got it to work, wish I could have figured out exactly what it was! The silver one was stolen, so sad. Love my greenie though!