All Songs Missing From iPod

Somebody PLEASE HELP! I saved some new songs to my computer and was importing them into iTunes. I was then transferring the songs to my iPod nano. After the first 3 or 4 songs, I get an error message from iTunes (I do not remember it exactly, since I was trying to "fix" it). It said something about my "CJ DISK" (CJ my initials) file needed to be inserted or downloaded because of a "Volume" error. I had never seen this before and it was no longer allowing me to transfer songs. So then I clicked on my iPod file to see if the songs I downloaded were "whole". When I clicked on a song (any song) in my iPod list, it woudn't let me play any of the songs and then gave me another error message, which I also cannot recall exactly. I then ejected my iPod from iTunes, but the iPod was still acting as if it were connected. So then I "rebooted" the iPod (hold button on/off and held "menu" and "select" buttons). When the iPod rebooted, ALL of my songs were gone; All 180 of them!!! What just happened?? What do I do now??
Toshiba (laptop) Windows XP

If you're going to "help" people, then maybe you need
to work on your bedside manner. If you don't get
that you were rude in your response, then you can't
be helped and I personally don't want yours.
Oh that's nice, so you think it must be an honour for anyone to give you advice and help you?
If you want advice for free you have to accept personal manners more or less as long as the comment is within normal ettiquette. If you pay for the advice you of course can expect the form the advice is given but not if it's in a free forum like here.
I find it quite astonishing which demands some people posting for advice here have in others who give their knowledge in their spare time and without any form of payment whatsoever.
So maybe consider a little if the form you gave your answer maybe deters others from helping you.

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