How to get songs on my iPod to show up in iTunes

I have an iPod mini. When I connect to my Windows Vista computer, my iPod shows up in iTunes but it will not show a list of the songs. I click on the tabs at the top for Summary, Music etc, but no song list. There are songs on my iPod so the problem is not that there is no music. Any suggestions?

Select the iPod in the source list on left side of screen.

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