All music Erased?!

IPOD 80G, Itunes 7.0 on WinXP. Set to manual update and have been adding songs for 2 months without issue. Added 3 new cds when the copy process was copleted I got an error message stating something to the effect of "cannot update, file not found" at which point my Ipod was disconnected (I touched nothing) and ALL of my music and videos are gone!!
When I view the Ipod through WIndows I can see the folder "Ipod_Control" is dimmer than the folders around it. I can click on it and scroll to the music folder where there are many folders still there, but all are empty.
I upload my music from my laptop which doesn't have enough storage for me to keep all my music in Itunes so I have no backed up songs.
Any explaination from anyone? What went wrong? Is there a data recovery option to get back the countless hours of music uploading that I have just lost? I am fuming over this!!
80G Video   Windows XP  

This morning the same thing happened to me. I purchased new music for my ipod, downloaded it, safely removed, plugged it back in a few minutes later and all of the songs that I purchased in the past disappeared!!!!!!! Why did this happen?????

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