IPod data keeps getting erased

I manually sync my iPod with my Windows 7 desktop without any issues. I got an iBook G3 running Mac OS X 10.3.9 recently, and sometimes when I connect it, the data is erased and none of the songs will play. They still appear on my iPod and in iTunes but when I explore the iPod_Control folder on my iPod, none of the songs are in any of the folders. When I try to play any song on my iPod, they appear with all their data and album artwork but it just skips through the songs, without playing any. In iTunes, when I try to play or edit the info of any songs, the terrible little exclamation point shows up and it won't play. I know it's not an automatic syncing problem, but it might have something to do with switching back and forth between OS's or versions of iTunes (running 9.2 on windows, 7 on mac). The weird thing about it is that it only happens sometimes, and that I can manage the music and playlists on my iPod in iTunes most of the time and then the data is just erased without reason. I've restored my iPod twice and replaced the music from my Windows computer in the past week. Thanks in advance for any help!

Diane Wordsmith wrote:
Are you set to manually manage on both computers? If not, an auto sync on one of them will erase the iPod and place that computer's library on it.
No that wouldn't be it. The manual vs. Auto sync setting is stored on the iPod, not on iTunes. So if you take a manually managed iPod and plug it into an iTunes it has never connected to before, the new iTunes will still recognize the iPod as manually managed and not do anything bad to it (in theory).
Patrick

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