USB Devices not recognized!! :-O

Today is definitely not so much of a good day and this for one reason: WINDOWS IS MESSING UP AGAIN!

The situation: yesterday I had to unplug my USB TV box to plug in a USB flash disk in order to copy some quick data. Right after that, I replugged the TV box and BANG! It wouldn't get recognized and so was the same for anything else I plugged in after that. I spent more than 2 hours restarting the computer, shutting down devices and restarting them etc... nothing would work. I first thought then that the devices might not be working after all as Windows was suggesting. I plugged them into my PB and there we go, it's working!! So, this time Windows is messing up, almost forcing me to reinstall and the problem is not virus-related!
I spent the whole night backing up my data and tranfering it between computers. Early this morning (yeah, Windows can mess up as much as it wants, it won't prevent me from sleeping as long as I've got my Mac), I tried 'repairing' Windows and the approach as quite unsuccessfull. I am now in the process of doing a clean install and things better start to work now because I am getting really pissed off!!! I mean gees, why would it just stop recognizing USB devices? For what reason for heaven's sake?

I feel very :-( and very :-@.

Ooh man! Clean install just finished and guess what? Windows still can't recognize my USB devices? So what does that mean? Change my motherboard? Or should I buy a whole new CPU? Hell no!!!! This is not happening!

I can't wait to get OS X for Intel processors!! Windows is doomed!! :-@


[==== UPDATE ====]
Well, I've done some search and guess what? It turns out that many people have had the same problems and many did exactly what I did and went through what I went through. But there was no need to reinstall windows or to spend the whole night wondering what the problem is or even changing the motherboard or aything like that. The solution is simple: unplug the CPU (remove power cord) for a few minutes and plug it back, then restart and all USB devices are recognized as nothing ever happened. I wish I knew this earlier. But this is very annoying and I think manufacturers/OS writers should inform users of this kind of condition or possible issue. You can read more about the solution HERE.

I am not really happy about the fact that I had to reinstall windows and now have to spend an awful lots of time reinstalling every single piece of software. But at least 4 things am glad about:

1 - I didn't have to replace any of my computer components (too broke to do that at the moment);

2 - I know how to solve this problem if it ever occurs again either with me or with someone else;

3 - whatever I say and however angry I may get, my computer is fresh and faster since I did a clean install;

4 - I am smiling again and but I am still waiting for the Intel-based OS X. I can't take this Windows annoyances anymore...