Help with folders on ipod

Okay, recently I ran into a problem where my ipod would randomly skip most of the songs on it. The song titles and song lengths were there, but it would just skip right over it. I told my friend about it, and he said that someone had screwed around with the folders you see when you open the iPod through My Computer (I have Windows XP). He suggested that the sources of the songs might have been messed around with and the iPod couldn't locate the source of the songs, and that I might be able to get it working if I could put the files and folders back in order. I was wondering of any of you could help me with this. These are the folders and the files inside the folders as they are now:
- Calendars: Empty
- Contacts: Empty
- Notes: One file called .DS_STORE (7kb), one called Instructions, and three word documents I saved on it.
- .Trashes: One Folder called 501: one file called ._501
- 501 (another folder called 501): contains one file called ._501 and another called .DS_STORE (larger at 22kb).
- Digidesign Databases: one file called ._.VolumeIcon.icns (1kb), one called .ipodcontrol, ._.VolumeIcon.icns (35kb), and one called volume.ddb.
That's it.
As I said before, my friend suggested that the problems I have with listening to some tracks may be caused by these folers and files being all out of place, so if any one could help me put them in their proper place, perhaps I could recover these songs. Thanks in advance.
Fifth Generation   Windows XP  

If all your music is on itunes and that plays fine I'd just reformat my ipod and restore the music files from iTunes. I'm assuming that your iTunes library matches what's on your iPod - if it doesn't I would be retisent to try and recover what's on your ipod using one of the many third party tools to update /mirror iTunes.
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