Windows error when plugging in video ipod - device has malfunctioned

Hello all, I'm hoping someone here will be able to help with this problem.
I've had my 30gb video ipod for just over six months (bought online at the apple website) and it's worked fine up until about a week ago.
I plugged it into my pc as usual but then got the following windows error.
'One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned and Windows does not recognise it.'
In case it's relevant my pc is running win xp media edition.
Now after reading the FAQ's I've tried connecting the ipod to 4 other desktops and one laptop and I get the same error message on all of them.
I've also tried switching the ipod to 'disk mode' but I still get the same error message when plugging the ipod into my pc.
Apart from these errors the ipod itself will still play all the music and videos that I have on it and my fm transmitter that I bought for it still works as well.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can try? As far as I can see the only way to format the ipod is via the pc but I cannot get any pc to recognise it so I'm stuck!
Any help you could chuck my way would be appreciated.
Regards
Rich

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