Either iTunes or my computer deletes all of my songs every time I plug any of my iPods in

Whenever I plug in either my 80gig 5gen iPod Video, 8gig 5gen iPod Nano, or 8gig 3gen iPod Touch into my computer, all the songs are instantly erased. I used to have a problem where I would have to restore my iPods to get them to work (and in some occasions the restore proccess would loop), but NOW this frustrating problem is occuring. It bothers me to no end whenever I have to meticulously pick through my iTunes library to load the 45 gigs of music I listen to onto my video (from picking to syncing is roughly a 3 hour process). I feel like this started when I switched computers at Christmas, but then again, I didn't have the latest version of iTunes on my old laptop (which I no longer have). Is there any way to tell whether it's the comptuer or iTunes deleting these files? I tried to revert back to a previous version of iTunes but was unable to due to the fact "the playlists were made with a more recent version of iTunes" or some nonsense like that. Oh, and if any of you can offer your assistance, I'll be your loyal servant for all of eternity. I'm running Windows 7 on an Acer Aspire 5253-BZ686. If you have any more questions, ask them and I will do my best to respond soon after.
Oh! This is the series of events in which it happens... Plug in>computer recognizes and makes "ding" noise>iPod shows up in iTunes (shows it has music on it)> Add songs or adjust titles/artists etc.>Click eject button on iTunes>iPod screen goes back to home screen>(before physically unplugging) Check music>GONE.
GRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!
Edit: Just plugged iPod Video in and it requires a restore... gave me some error message like "the contents of Jacob's iPod could not be read, restore it before it can be used" or something. When it was restored, it gave me the message, "iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode. You must restore this iPod before it can be used with iTunes." (This was after the first and second restore)... I'm about to go take my anger out on June Bugs.

Some things that might help:
Restore one or all the devices as "new" and start from scratch.
Use playlists to control what syncs to the devices.
Create a "new" library in a different directory and see if that resolves the ongoing issue.

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