Ah ha … I have to admit I didn’t take into account the age of your computer and possible incompatibility of its USB ports. Well at least you have grounded out the problem with the I-pod AND installed an effective registry cleaner.
It’s always the way isn’t it? We rush off to buy the latest gizmo so that we can download music whilst walking the dog or hiking in Snowdonia or somesuch, and completely forget that every new “toy” or gadget is specifically made to be incompatible with its predecessors.
This built in obsolescence is a sneaky way for manufacturers to get you to buy more and more of their stuff eh?
Anyway what’s the point of storing up to 3,000 tunes on your I-pod? It would take you over a month to listen to them all once only if you played them constantly 7 hours a day 7 days a week.