I keep having to restore my ipod classic to sync music

Hey everybody, I have this annoying problem with my iPod classic that won't go away - for over a month now my music keeps disappearing from my iPod when I disconnect it from my computer, but my hard drive is not wiped out, so the music is still there it just won't show up on the iPod when disconnected. I have to keep restoring the iPod to factory settings in order for it to go away, but it keeps happening every other day or so. Its not an iTunes problem that's for sure, because I stopped using iTunes thinking it was the source of the problem but surely now I know it's my iPod. iTunes displays "*iTunes cannot read the contents of this iPod*" etc.
I tried asking around, but never got an answer. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Same problem: since 2 days my iPod cannot be syncronized.
Itunes indicates "error 1601" and then is unable to restore the iPod.
In the Apple support page, no solution is given (a part from uninstall and re-install iTunes, which I did and had any good result) and the page appears to be NOT updated since 2008.
Does this have something to do with the last update for iTunes that I just made?
Any clue of any solution for this ?
thank you

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