Does my iPod need repair?

Do I need to bring my iPod (30 GB iPhoto, approximately 1 year old) in for repair, or am I just an idiot who can't follow directions (please don't answer the second question -- it's rhetorical)? Here's the situation: My iPod froze up, and I reset it. It seemed to work OK for awhile, and then it happened again. Resetting it did not work, as it did the last time. I recharged the battery, and according to the screen, it was fully charged. However, when I tried to use it, my songs and playlists had all disappeared. When I plugged it into my iMac (I run OS X, Jaguar, although I don't know if that's relevant) and opened iTunes, the iPod icon never appeared, the way it usually does when I update the iPod's contents. Nor did the screen go gray. In short, nothing happened, although the iPod did start up with the blinking "Do Not Disconnect" message. Soon, I got a message on my computer reading "You have inserted a disk containing no volumes that Mac OSX can read. To use the unreadable volumes, click initialize. To continue with the disk inserted, click ignore." I clicked ignore because I was afraid of what would happen if I clicked "initialize." I read through the manual and the online help pages, and I even tried to restore my iPod by running the iPod applications/utilities updater application. It didn't work -- the program did not seem to recognize that I'd plugged in the iPod or whatever. I don't want to pay for an expensive repair if this is something that I can handle myself. I still have all the disks that came with the iPod, but I'd prefer not to completely lose everything that's in iTunes already -- I have a full library, and it would be a real pain to recreate it.
I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions. I'd rather not download any new updates, if possible, because I have a dial-up Internet connection, and it takes forever to download software.
iMac Mac OS X (10.2.x) iPod Photo, 30 GB

OK, I followed your (very helpful) advice (thank you!), and I selected both the icon that had 27.95 Apple (the iPod, I assumed) and the little icon indented beneath it, which didn't say anything but appeared to be a subset of the one above. I had to initialize them because I got the message saying that it was unreadable (the other option was to ignore). So after I did that, I clicked on the First Aid tab and -- voila! -- was able to click on the "repair" button. It took a couple minutes, and then I got the following message:
Repairing disk "".
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Catalog file entry not found for extent
Volume check failed.
Repair completed.
So now what? My iPod is still plugged into my computer (I'm getting the "Do Not Disconnect" message on it, but there is no way to eject it because the iPod icon is still not showing up either in iTunes or on my desktop.
Do I need to start over by reinstalling the iPod software and just pretending that I've got a brand new iPod? Will it mess the iPod up if I disconnect it while the "Do Not Disconnect" message is on its screen?
Thank you so much.

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OK, I followed your (very helpful) advice (thank you!), and I selected both the icon that had 27.95 Apple (the iPod, I assumed) and the little icon indented beneath it, which didn't say anything but appeared to be a subset of the one above. I had to initialize them because I got the message saying that it was unreadable (the other option was to ignore). So after I did that, I clicked on the First Aid tab and -- voila! -- was able to click on the "repair" button. It took a couple minutes, and then I got the following message:
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So now what? My iPod is still plugged into my computer (I'm getting the "Do Not Disconnect" message on it, but there is no way to eject it because the iPod icon is still not showing up either in iTunes or on my desktop.
Do I need to start over by reinstalling the iPod software and just pretending that I've got a brand new iPod? Will it mess the iPod up if I disconnect it while the "Do Not Disconnect" message is on its screen?
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