CANNOT UPDATE - IPOD EMPTY! HELP!

I recentley added some CD's to my Itunes and went to update. It gave me a meesege saying there was too much and it would create a new playlist for the rest and update what it could.
I deleted a lot of stuff and deleted the playlist it made for me.
No when I go to update, everything is GONE on the IPOD! Everything is still in iTunes, but IPOD is empty.
Each time it gives me the the messege " SONGS ON IPOD CANNOY BE UPDATED BECASUE ALL OF THE PLAYLISTS SELECTED FOR UPDATING DO NOT EXIST"
Can anyone please help me out??? PLEASE!!
Tjonc@sbcglobal
Thank yuo for anytihng you can do!
Tommy

Thomas,
How many songs do you have in your iTunes that your software said there's too much?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93656

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