iPod Touch, iTunes & 64 bit Windoze Vista

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Hi all,

On Mon I treated myself to a new 16GB iPod Touch. Now, I am having a nightmare with it.. It appears that support for the iPod Touch (and the iPhone) is still ropey on Windows Vista, specifically the 64bit flavour. I am on Home Premium. When I plug in my iPod, it makes a short bleep noise, and an image appears on the screen of the iPod of the Apple USB plug with an up arrow pointing to the disc and blue note symbol for iTunes. Then it just goes off.

iTunes meanwhile throws out an error that an iPhone has been detected, but not installed correctly, that I should try again.

Last night I:

• Installed Vista SP1
• Uninstalled and reinstalled all USB Device Drivers
• Uninstalled & reinstalled iTunes - the latest release is 7.6.2.9 - if you download it with IE (64bit) then iTunes should recognise the 64bit OS and install the correct version.
• Uninstalled and reinstalled the iPod Touch drivers, called Apple Mobile Device in my Device Manager list.

So now I have a £217 paperweight at home which Apple tell me ought to work, Microsoft tell me ought to work, and yet it doesn't work.

I can't think of anything else to change in order to get it working, I have surfed around and found a lot of suggestions that didn't seem to work for me.
Has anyone got any ideas for how I can get this working? Does any have an iPod touch or an iPhone working with 64 bit Vista?

TIA.