All music tracks on my iPod seem to be corrupt after adding podcasts

Ok, I'm desperate here, but I'm pretty sure I know there is nothing I can do. My situation:
I bought a 80GB 5G iPod right when they first came out (six weeks ago?) in preparation for a 6-8 month long trip I am currently on. I loaded my whole music collection onto the iPod (about 50GB worth of music) and all was glorious. Everything worked great. Just before I left to travel across the country, I added a bunch of podcasts as well. All was still glorious. I should add I used WinXP to add the previously mentioned music/podcasts, and that I used iTunes v7.0.1 and had the iPod v1.2 software.
I then departed for my trip across the country and the iPod performed marvellously. I was thrilled with my toy. Four weeks later, I am staying with some friends in California, and I thought it would be a great chance to update my podcasts and maybe add some new ones. So I added a bunch with my friends computer, which is a Mac Powerbook (and iTunes v7.0.1).
Again, everything was working great... all the music and the podcasts. I am now getting ready to leave their house and continue travelling, so I added some more podcasts to my iPod.
So... I went to play some music today, none of my music would play, all the files seem to be corrupt. All my podcast (video and regular) are all functional. I am really devastated since I have no way to get my music library back onto the iPod if I do a restore, since my computer is thousands of miles away in a storage unit.
Any idea what happened? How I can prevent it from happening again? Any remote chance I can salvage anything?
thanks in advance!
Christopher

check and see if the files causing this issue are mono audio format (vs. stereo).. if so, convert them to stereo until apple comes out with a fix... (u.u) they should play once you convert them..

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