ERRONEOUSLY FILLING CAPACITY ON MY IPOD

When I connect my iPod to my computer, the computer is automatically and erroneously filling the iPod to its capacity. The iPod summary reflects that the capacity is basically full with 491.8 MB Audio and 3.25 GB Other (total capacity of iPod is ~4 GB). I manually manage the music on my iPod and I haven't downloaded anything other than audio to it...roughly 123 songs. Unsure what "other" represents. Twice I've restore my iPod to its original setting. This is a temporary solution to the problem as the problem resurfaces after a couple of days. Any ideas as to what I can do to resolve the problem?

I had a similar problem caused by my iPod attempting to use a drive letter that was already in use. iTunes was displaying the capacity of that drive instead of the capacity of my iPod. I changed the drive letter for my iPod, and everything works like a charm now. Here are some links to get started.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93716
This is the one that fixed my problem.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93499

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