Upgrading itunes and disappearing drives

i could use some help,here is my problem :
after upgrading to any itunes version above 5.0 everything works exept windows and all of my burning programs(roxio--alchool120)do not recognise any burning drive.i have a cdrw internal burner and an external burner.none gets recognised.
when itunes first runs i tells me my config folder for the burning drives is empty please reinstall the drives.
should the external drive get installed again when i plug it in?why the new versions of itunes does this ?
so i use system restore to go back a day and everything works again,but the itunes version goes back too.
i hate ipods the only reason i do this is because of my son
ps:is there any way to get the ipod recognised by a old version of itunes?
dell dimension 8200 Windows XP sp1

ok this is the complete story (long version,will try to make it short)
holyday 2003 : install ipod itunes(ver 5?) everything works fine.
sometimes after don't know when my son updates to itunes (i believe 5.1?)and at the time after upgrading the i tunes worked but upon opening the itunes for the first time,
we had a message like this : itunes cannot find the registry settings to allow me to burn cds,please reinstall cds? .after that none of my burning programs had a default burnerand could not burn with any of it. so all freaked out i system restored to 2 days before. all my recording drives started working again and i told my son not to upgrade itunes anymore.
fast forword to few day ago: old ipod broke(hard drive gone) my son buys new ipod w/video from his friend. install ipod works with old itunes. complains because he cannot tansfer video to ipod with old itunes.swears the itunes is now to 6.0 and all bugs are now worked out.tries to upgrade itunes and bam.itunes don't work quicktime don't work all burning drives disappeared again.so much for all bugs worked out!after reverting to old itunes (i went crazy because itunes did not work ,had to clean out registry and install a stand alone version of quick time)now i have officially given up to upgrading itunes!
the old itunes now works with the new ipod but he has no way to tranfer video to it.
i tank you for your kindness in answering me but my only other question is:
is there any other program that let's you transfer videos(any file for that matter) to ipod?
and why can't mac people make the ipod appear and work like an external drive?
why can't we window users copy and paste a file directly into ipod?
sorry but i'm really ****** off
dell dimension 8200 Windows XP

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