I need help getting my ipod to work with my computer, please help?

Okay so the situation is; I want to hook up my ipod (8gb nano) to my computer (it’s a pc, running windows 2000) but itunes says I need version 7.6 or higher for my ipod to work and that download apparently doesn’t work for my computer so I was wondering if there’s a way so it can work that way, or have some other program that would also work for me thanks in advance :)