Itunes has detected an Ipod that has been corrupted?

I just downloaded the latest version of Itunes and it will not let me upload songs to my Ipod. It says I would need to restore my Ipod, which I believe means delete everything. Any idea how to fix this?
Thx

Did you do it using the latest iPod updater? In fact, you may want to find a past version of the updater and not use the utility bundled in iTunes 7.0.1.

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