All files classified as "OTHER" after sync

I was syncing my iPod tonight and iTunes made me restore it and now the iPod says I have no songs but 9GB of "OTHER"?! When looking in iTunes...it shows mostly blue for audio...but the ipod shows ZERO music. I've had it for less than a year... Anyone know how to fix this? I've restored it 4 or 5 times and it keeps doing the same thing.... I never had any problems syncing before.

I tried this and I also upgraded my iphone. The data summary in itunes is showing up correctly, but it still won't sync. Also, I have 1154 songs in my itunes library and the data summary says there is 1154 songs on my iphone. When I go to the music app on my iphone and scroll to the bottom of the songs list, it says 1149 songs. Does anyone else have this problem?

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