Gateway M640XL-QS Notebook "hook mp3 player laptop charge" Questions

mp3 player frozen I have a mp3 player that is frozen. I was able to download all my music then I left it hooked to the computer to finish charging. I came back saw it was off so I turned it on and now

...mp3 player up to the USB, it won't recognize it. It's really strange too, because the Zune charges and everything and the Zune program starts up, but in the program it will say that no device is ...