Why is itunes not seeing my iPod?

I have followed the troubleshooting support page for starting and stopping services, deleting temp directories, cleaning the registry and etc. Followed each one, one at a time, and still here's what I have going on. My iPod is seen by Windows 7 (64bit) and it appears in my computer as an iPod. The first thing the iPod does is once it's connected to windows; windows says the device must be formatted in order to be used. I hit no, because the restore will do this anyway. I open itunes, and no device is listed. I tried (just to see if it would help) to go ahead and hit yes on the reformatting, and once I get to the disk formatting screen, I hit format disk, and it says "this device could not be formatted."
I have used this iPod for a while, and a few months ago, I synced up... went to the gym, and my playlist and music was gone. Haven't got it working since.
Any ideas?

Update: left it on the usb port all night, itunes finally saw it. I did the restore, and when it restarts, itunes says the ipod is corrupted. Tells me to run the restore again and again. Any ideas on this one?

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