Please help...

For some reason none of my peripherals work properly anymore - none of
them appear as virtual drives in Explorer. My digital camera, ipod and
mp3 player all fail to show up.

I've reinstalled all the drivers. I've reinstalled SP2. I've checked
Device Manager. Nothing is giving me 'error' messages. All the drivers
are supposed to be working correctly.

My iPod is using a Firewire connection. The other gadgets are using
USB.

My only option now seems to reinstall WinXP and start from scratch -
surely there must be a better way ?