ITUNES CAN'T READ MY IPOD BLACK VIDEO 30G! WHY?

My computer was running slow and I had itunes and photoshop open. And then next thing I know, my itunes stopped responding and then my photoshop cs2 was responding. So I tried to eject my ipod, and then restart my computer. It wouldn't do it for ages. So I gave up, and turned my mac off, and then then when I loaded it back up, it said.... ITUNES CANNOT READ THE CONTENTS OF THE IPOD. and I've got all my music on it and video and it's all wiped. Which all my music and video's are on my home IMAC, which is back in the UK. I am in South africa for another 3 months meaning no music and no videos. Is there any way of retrieving my music back- please?
There is another query. When I plug my ipod in, it still recognises the name of the ipod. And when itunes loads up, it says the message above. But if I don't click that and actually click on the iPod icon on my desktop, I have a 'faded out' folder called- iPOD CONTROL. which if I follow it brings me to a list of audio files which is my music but random file names like WENM.wav etc. So I know the music is on there. Is there anyway of restoring my iPod with out formatting it? There must!! Please help.

It was worth a shot... anyway, since you can see the music on the iPod via Finder, you might want to consider moving that music from the iPod to your hard drive, listen to the file to determine the name of it, put it into iTunes, restore the iPod and then sync the iPod. You can also seek third party software that might be able to recover the files from the iPod, but given the issue you're having, that might not be an option.
Check out this post from Zevoneer for some iPod recovery options.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6273675&#6273675
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