All songs are gone, still taking up space

Hi, just recently my iPod has been acting a bit weird and it has been having trouble connecting to my computer. I plugged it in last night and it failed to show up in iTunes or my Windows Explorer. I left it plugged in just in case it just had to take a while to work. When I woke up this morning and checked it was basically asking me all the questions it asks when you first install the iPod. It was asking me the name of the iPod, whether I wanted the iPod to auto-update the songs onto it from iTunes, and if I wanted to register my iPod. Also, it said there were no songs on it. I was baffled and shut down my computer. After my iPod was disconnected from the Firewire power source from my computer I disconnected it and lo and behold, it also says I have no songs on it. The weird thing is that it still says that out of the 37.1 GB total capacity, I only have 14.3 GB available. This means that all my songs must be on there, but it's just not recognizing them. I tried to use the iPod Updater/Restorer application, but when I plugged my iPod in it said that it couldn't mount the iPod. What do I do?
Specs:
Version: 3.1.1
Model: M9268LL
Format: Windows
(This is the 40GB 4th Gen iPod. Basically the one that came out before the color ones.)

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