error 1607 Blues

If you're ever trying to resurrect your iPod from beyond the grave in the exact fashion I did - don't. Just - don't.  Go, young man or woman, to the Apple store.

So iTunes was prompting me to update to 4.7.1. I figure, while I'm at it, I'll update the iPod software too. Ha. Ha ha ha. I should have known better to do this than on a day when I
a.)crushed my pretty sunglasses and 
b.)lost a $10 BART ticket in the shadowy ick known as "between the seat and the wall of the BART car", all
c.) before I was even really awake.

Here's my iPod flickering at me "do not disconnect" for the better part of a day. What? Why? I turned to our friend, the internet, to try to fix it. (Rather that turning to my friend, Anil, who said "Why didn't you just go into iTunes and click 'eject iPod?' Noooo, too easy.)

I got a "1607" error when trying to update my iPod software. WTF does that mean?  I have no clue. Fortunately this guy did, as well as how to get into my regedit files to give MYSELF PERMISSION TO INSTALL THINGS on MY OWN COMPUTER, then how to update Install Shield's drivers. Uninstall the old driver, uninstall iTunes, uninstalled iPod, reinstall everything, try again.

then I got an 'iPod service error". This is at about 11pm, three hours after I had promised my poor boyfriend I would only be five minutes. I gave up for the night, vowing to either fix the damn thing or throw it down the hallway.

Ok. So I connected the whole shebang to my work machine, reinstalled the iPod software, and erased it the iPod. then I erased it AGAIN at home. I imagine little rubber shavings scattered inside it.

Plugged it in, and STILL nothing. "Your Windows PC doesn't recognize the device." I then reformatted the disk in Windows Disk Management.

Again, I reinstalled iTunes. I then went out for a drink or maybe five.

Abracadabra! It worked! But not really. So I took it to our good friends at the Apple store, who gave me a nUsed one to replace the old one, saying the hard drive had failed. Whoo, warranty!

What shelf paper should I put on the new one? I'm leaned to black and white checkerboard, but maybe a really obnoxious old-lady pattern would be good too.