Trouble ejecting the ipod from itunes

Just got my ipod 80gb and i connect, update, sync and all that jazz, but when the time comes to eject my ipod it says that files on the ipod are being used by another program; close all programs and try again, same thing, but sometimes it ejects and it looks fine, but if you leave it in there for over 5 seconds it reconects and then the "files used by another program" popup comes up
Any suggestions? it worked fine with my old ipod and i don't have any new programs running
  Windows XP  

Usually when this happens, there is a conflict between the ipod and some other program on the computer. Here is a link to an article on the apple support website for troubleshooting conflicts on windows computers.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302538

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