Wrong Drive Letter Assignment

This issue caused about 8 hours of grief with trying to get the new iPod to work.
The short of it is, when the iPod is connected, Windows was assigning a drive letter to it that was already in use, Drive F. It also happens that this drive mapping pointed to the Network Share where my music and photo files were. Therefore, iTunes was trying to put the files back to the same place.
No errors were displayed and operations continued along like nothing was wrong. iTunes indicated that all my files were on the iPod but the iPod was bare.
The fix was to go to Manage computer (right mouse click on My Computer, select Manage) then in Disk Management you can reassign drive letters to connected devices. Select the iPod device and give it an unused drive letter. Windows will use that letter in the future when connecting the iPod.
I spent the 8 hours resetting, reinstalling and rebooting everything in sight until I explored using theiPod as an external drive and noticed that it wasn't showing up in My Computer as a mapped drive.
Hopes this hopes helps solve it for someone else.
-phil
Panasonic Toughbook laptop Windows XP Pro
Several Windows XP Pro

You've described the issue well, but this is a long-time known issue, documented on the Apple support page (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93499). Windows has a tendancy to forget about Network mapped drives when assigning new physical drive letters.

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