Weird goings on with my ipods

hi everyone,
i posted in the shuffle forum on this but now it seems to be happening with all my 4 ipods. !
when i plug one of them in to the computer
itunes does not automatically open anymore with any of them but a window opens with a drive letter (i'm up to (U:)
and in the window are 3 folders
calendar
contacts
notes
i don't get it. something has happened and i don't know what it could be.
i reformatted the shuffle back to factory settings and now when i drag a song over a new empty window opens with the drive letters going towards Z each time a new letter and i transferred over 32 songs in 1/2 hour i got 2 songs over.
i do not have any spyware, malware or viruses on my system.
can anyone help ?
thanks very much !
michael.

... okay, we're in experimental territory here. i'm starting to follow hunches.
and my camera is f
what make and model of camera do you have?
do all these mysterious drives have the same capacity as the camera?
i'm wondering about this because i know that some cameras (such as the noir household kodak) use software that convinces bits of Windows that the camera is a hard drive. i figure if something went ... exotically ... wrong with that, it's conceivable that we could end up with fake drives breeding like rabbits on the PC.
(off the top of my head, i can't think of another thing that could cause this, so let's check the hunch first, and then i'll start doing some research if this doesn't pan out.)
love, b

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