itunes killed my ipod!

i am so angry. i recently updated my 4G ipod clickwheel to the latest version of itunes 7.01 and now its killed my ipod. Having searched the web, looks like this is serious hardware/firmware issue which many many people are also suffering with. And the worst thing is there's no fix. Apple 5 R's: Reset, Retry, Restart, Reinstall, Restore just aint working this time. and its just not good enough.

This smacks of conspiracy to me...the only people suffering from these problems are people with older ipods. There's something really fishy going on here. I think apple just want everyone to go buy a new ipod.

One piece of advice if you have a pre video ipod: do not update the ipod software!