grr im getting sick of my iPod doing this..

[JesA]

grr my iPod is acting up again. every time i try connecting it, there is absolutely no recognition at all. no little noise, no drive in My Computer, and no icon in iTunes. it does this all the time, and im sick of it. ive tried getting on apple.com and looking in the help guides, but as usual, they are no help at all...they tell yu to try these 5 r's...which do absolutely nothing...and then suggest a bunch of other useless stuff..and then if yu call them, the charge yu like 50 dollars to ask the question, which would be a waste cuz they prolly would just tell yu exactly what the site said....so can someone help me get my iPod to actually show up anywhere on my computer?