Ipod Service Error!

Your not the only one i'm afraid mate! I've been trying for days to update my ipod but everything thats suggested on the support website to fix the problem doesn't seem to help!! Does anyone know how to contact apple direct or if there are other fixes we can try?

Same problem here! I think there is something wrong with either the newest iPod updater software or the newest iTunes software. Either way this is pretty annoying...we need a fix ASAP!

Glad to hear I'm not the only one...misery loves company!

same problem here
I've been venting about this problem for days... 10 now, since I made the deadly decision to install the latest iTunes. Silly, I thought Apple would release a product that was ready.

I'm in the same boat in that none of Apple's instructions helped. And Anthony - they were written before 5.0 came out... so I wasn't that optimistic in all that disabling, removing, rebooting, reinstalling, etc.

I was going to re-install 4.9 (which is a bit of a challenge because you have to save your music and rename it, etc)
But I think I'm going to try and sit "patiently" for the 5.0 fix to come out. When? I don't know. But I've wasted many many hours sitting here pulling my hair out.

My iTunes 5.0 is playing music off my PC, my iPod works and I can charge it elsewhere. Just can't sync/add new music with this latest 5.0/disaster.I haven't had any Windows crashes - so I don't want to risk playing around again.

That's my only advice.
This is the post to go back to 4.9
James Bond 007, "Mark Jones - step by step help to get 4.9 back!" #3, 09:43pm Sep 15, 2005 CDT

I hope that when the fix does come out... it fixes ALL these problems.
I'm also experiencing a slllooooow startup to iTunes 5.0

hang in there...

Casey, so you have decided to wait for the fix with iTunes 5 rather than reinstalling iTunes 4.9? Well, I hope it will solve your problems when it comes.

Are you using iTunes 5 or an older version?

When you removed and reinstalled iTunes did you do so according to the exact instructions here: Removing iTunes for Windows?

Yes,,, but if that doesn't work: I saved your instructions about going back to 4.9 - THANKS!

I just wish Apple wasn't having us, the simple music listeners, play around with hidden files, copying and renaming -- dangerous...

I wish I had of came to this section 6 hours ago. I just wasted all of that time trying all of the Apple suggestions on how to fix this error as well as some of my own thoughts.

What I have discovered, is the iPodservice.exe does not running on my Windows XP. It does not look like I can do anything to fix it, so I guess I'll have to wait for a fix along with everyone else.

Any idea how we'll know when the fix has been released?

After days of trying out all recommended steps I gave it up. Looking for help to solve the problem I searched this board, but what I found here? People who suffer from the same thing. Now it seems to be up to Apple to present us a solution!

Greetings from Germany!

Update - I came to the conclusion that our issue may be because we did not run the Update before downloading iTunes 5. Is this scenerio true for all of you? If so, can any of you try running the updater from another PC and then trying to connect to iTunes?

same here! Apple should help us now!!!!!!!!

Any good news???

You people having this issue: What size is your iPodService.exe file? Just out of curiousity...