IPod Touch 2G is not recognized anywhere, except iTunes

Yesterday night, i was installing objectdock and windowblinds and icon packager. after i was satisfied, i decided to enjoy some music in my iTunes library. I picked a song, but to my surprise it had a ( ! ) symbol next to it. (yknow, the one indicating that iTunes couldn't locate the song, it's not in its directory etc etc etc.)
Okay, so I system restored figuring it'd be worth a shot. I restored it to a point before I installed the objectdock etc, and my computer wasn't giving in. half my songs were erased, i looked at the My Music folder, looked under iTunes, and then looked in its subfolders, which were the names of the albums and artists. The actual songs files were gone too.
Well, then I figured I could probably extract all my data (even my movies and crap were erased) from my iPod Touch 2G. I plugged it into my computer, via USB, and even as I tried various ports, the only place it showed up was iTunes. and we all know iTunes is dead to me right now.
I downloaded a few third-party applications like CopyTrans, etc, and oddly, the iPod didn't show up either. It shows up in My Computer, but that's just because there are saved screenshots on my ipod, so it treats it as if it were a camera.
Anyway, now google failed me, and nobody is really helpful. My iPod is fully charged, I've restarted it a couple times, (I even restarted my computer a couple times, and being that it is archaic, it's really slow. 6 years to date. oh god.) and I've restored the settings on my iPod. I am not restoring the data at all, because that's the last place it exists, and I'd be shooting myself in the foot if i did that. I have iTunes 8, don't worry.
So now I technically have two problems. Why isn't my iPod getting recognized (and no, this probably isn't your typical problem, so no apple support links please), and why did iTunes erase half my songs/videos. fortunately, my apps are safe.
*Also now, recently:*
the only response from the iPod is it charging, the little indicator on the top right, it has a little charged symbol. it's already fully charged, but it still won't become recognized. and suddenly, itunes stopped recognizing it as well.
Please post some suggestions as to what I should/can/need to do.
Message was edited by: kris121192

Never mind--I think I found the answer through other posts.  Thanks!

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