All songs and playlists missing from iPod

I have a 20GB iPod with the click wheel. It is not showing any of the music I have loaded on it, but when I look under "About", it says that the capacity = 18.5 GB, available = 150MB, which would seem to indicate there is data on the device. When I plug it into my computer for iTunes, I get a message saying that it can't find the music. I believe its happened before, but just 'fixed' itself. I have tried the reset (menu + middle) thing. No luck. PLEASE HELP . . . SO DESPERATE!

Hi people!
I think to have the same problem. Yesterday i have plug my iPod into my computer (Windows XP) and iTunes can't show me the songs (but all songs were fisically in the path music!!) I read also a message in the traybar such this " \iPod_Control\Device\Sysinfo is corrupt or unreadable. Please run the chkdsk utility."
Well I say me.. CALM! So I tried to restore my ipod using itunes tool (with version 7.1) and all problems was vanished.
so i have restored some songs into the ipod.
All ok.. Till this evening: iTunes can't see some of the songs uploaded yesterday! Why?
Some songs had this problem: when i would play "The Show Must go on" the ipod play other sogn but the title on display is correct! Now i tried to update itunes to 7.3 version, and after some attemp of plug/unplug the ipod from the computer i don't see the problem yet.
what is happened?
Sorry for my english guys, i come from Rome! Thank you in advance

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