Volumes showing even when not connected

Hi, this is my problem:
Doing Get Info on my iPod shows it as "<My name>iPod 1". But in iTunes, and on Get Info for the iPod itself, it shows a "<My name>iPod".
If I go into Terminal and /Volumes, there are two listings- the iPod, and iPod 1.
I've completely reset my iPod to see if that will rectify matters. It hasn't.
Even without the iPod connected it still shows as a Volume. If I try umount, I get the message:
umount: <My name> iPod: not currently mounted
I got round it by changing the iPod name. However, now I have two instances of the new name, with one showing all the time on volumes
How can I remove these "rogue" values and stop this recurring?
Thanks!

OK, I've solved it! I'm not sure if this will stop it happening again, but this eliminated the issue.
By chance, I was running Disk Inventory X. In the graphical display there is a section called Volumes, and sat in there were all the iPods that my system thought were connected when they weren't.
There is a Move to Trash option, so I thought "Nothing ventured, nothing gained" and gave it a go - it worked!!
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