Very Strange! Help Please!

I have a 30g 3rd Gen iPod. I have been having all kinds of problems recenty, since the iTunes 5.0 update, which didn't stay around for long, so I am guessing Apple knew they screwed up. Anyway, I have a G5 here at work running Panther, and I can't eject my iPod or see it on the desktop (iTunes see's it though). At home I have a dual 1G running Tiger and I have no problems with it ejecting or appearing on the desktop.
Also, I have resorted to wiping the disk and restoring several times as when I could get it to eject, it would continue to restart and I could here a clicking sound. This stops when I put it in disk mode, but it still won't mount at work, but at home everything will be okay.
Please help, I don't think it is my iPod, something more to do with the G5/software.
Thank you in advance.
-Jim

Hi, thanks for your quick reply. I can imagine my questions may seem silly (or worse) but please bear with me. I'm a little new to this. I have now both uninstalled and re-installed itunes and ipod. The ipod is still not appearing in itunes. I have tried resetting the ipod but pressing select and menu (after toggling the hold) does not make the apple logo appear and does not put it into disc mode....
And my base question is do you, or others, have any idea why this happened in the first place? Where did the podcast appear from and where did all the music go?

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