Windows doesnt recognize... blinking orange... they tell me to replace USB?

OK, so my Shuffle 2nd Generation has the same problem as a lot of people. I plug it in, and Windows doesn't recognize it... sometimes I get an error message in my taskbar, but it never shows up in My Computer.
So first, they told me to update my USB drivers. Tried it. Didn't work.
Then, I called, and they said that I should purchase a USB 2.0 PCI card. The new iPod "requires" a high-powered port, he said. Let me show you why this makes me angry:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60971
This link says it all. The iPod shuffle is supposed to work with USB 1.1. Heck, I tried the iPod on my friend's USB 1.1 port, and while I didn't download any songs onto it, the computer recognized it immediately.
I know my USB port works, because I tried an iPod Nano on my computer, and it worked.
A couple of people on a different forum have told me to try an external USB hub. So here's my question: I know Apple doesn't reccommend it, but does anyone know for sure if a hub, or a PCI card, will work? (Or if either of them won't?)

So, it works now... Whew.
Right before I was about to buy an externally powered USB hub, my hard drive randomly died, so I had to replace it with a new one. Replaced it, with a clean re-install of Windows XP Home, and the iPod still didn't work, but then I switched around my USB printer and my iPod just for kicks, and it works.
But it's still a bit finicky.
It seems to work only if i unplug and replug my printer with the iPod attached in the "on" position. I've only uploaded music onto it a couple of times though... It always gives me the "Windows doesn't recognize... seems to have malfunctioned... yadda yadda" message, but then it switches to "Your device might work faster on a USB 2.0 Port" if I don't touch anything. (Which is weird, because I'm pretty sure all of my USB ports are 2.0.)
Then it recognizes the iPod, although only as "USB Mass Storage Device," but it still brings up iTunes and works.
No idea if the new hard drive had anything to do with it.
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