Why can't apple and windows just play nice?

I have a 1st gen 4G nano. I’ve had it for about a year and didn’t have any major issues with it until iTunes version 7.0.1 & iPod version 1.1 came around.
After that update I could no longer sync…at the time my life was too busy to look at the troubleshooting and my nano had plenty of music – the few songs I had downloaded did not justify the time at that point in time.
New Year New Life. I wanted to make sure things in my life were up and running so I decided to take the time to go through the troubleshooting steps and resolve the issue with my nano. I did the 5 Rs and got all the way to the last one Restore. Well my nano did not restore and now I don’t have any music.
Since then I’ve tried the 5 Rs again and always get stuck in the same place. Here is what I do. Please let me know what I need to do to get my nano back online.
1) Download the newest version of Itunes
2) Connect the nano to my laptop via the USB cable
(Worth nothing that before Itunes starts up I see the nano on my computer but after I click the OK on the message on Itunes that tells me to restore it disappears from my computer)
3) Click Ok on message that says, “iTunes cannot read the contents of the iPod…”
(At this point the screen on my iPod is on the “do not disconnect” screen.)
4) Click Restore (only option on the summary screen on iTunes)
(At this point the screen on the iPod is on the main menu.)
5) Click “Use Newest Version” (also tried “Use Older Version button) on the next pop up window.
6) Click “Restore” on the next menu
(iPod is still on main menu/charged screen)
7) Restoring “iPod” window comes up with the restoring bar moving on the screen; however, iPod is still on main menu screen.
8) After about two minutes an error message that says “The iPod could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1418).
A couple of additional notes, the iPod is fully charged and I have not added any new programs to my laptop. I do the normal Windows update but I strongly feel that it the root of the problem is within iTunes version 7.0.1 and version 1.1 iPod compatibility. Does anyone have any thoughts?

Do you have another computer available to you? because i was downloading linux on my ipod and it did not want to restore, but i went to my laptop and it did indeed restore, if you suspect IT 7 i recommend downloading a standalone updater for your ipod let me get a link
http://www.ipodwizard.net/showthread.php?t=7369
hope that resolves it

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