5th Generation iPod won't sync with iMac iTunes 9

PLEASE help.  5th generation 8GB iPod will not sync with iTunes 9 on my iMac OSx 10.4.11.  Hubby rebooted system and now I have zero songs on my iPod. I have restored iPod to factory settings and still zero songs.  Itunes says sync complete everything looks good but iPod still says zero songs.  Tried using new user account on iMac and going into iPod disk mode...no success.  Also tried restoring playlist from PC running windows 7 still nothing.   Please help...must have my tunes back asap...THANK YOU anyone who can help.

Have you had a chance to look at this troubleshooting page? If not, have a look at the bottom section that covers what to try if the message keeps reappearing: iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode - Use iTunes to restore
Towards the end it says "If after restoring your iPod, the message described above reappears, the iPod drive letter may need to be reassigned. See the "Change the Drive Letter" section of this document for steps to assign a different drive letter" which contains a link to this article: Windows confuses iPod with network drive and iTunes may exhibit strange behavior in relation to the iPod.

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