Restore loop of death..... Help ME!

I am in a restore loop of death..... I tried all of the apple links / articles, but all I get is a screen showing (starting at top) blue circle with musical note inside; iTunes; arrow pointing up; picture of a USB lead. Ipod is then unresponsive. When I plug in to iTunes I still just get the same screen on the iPod and a message saying "iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode. You must restore this iPod before it can be used with iTunes. Restoring just results in the same thing over and over...... What do I do?