I keep losing my music library .....please help!

I dont know whats happening, everytime I connect my I touch to Itunes when I disconnect it I lose all my music. Then when I connect it back Itunes says :
"Itunes cannot read the contents for this ipod, go to the summary tab in prefrences and click restore to restore to factory setting"
This is tiring, I have done this about 4 times in the last week or so and I cant figure out whats happening. It takes me about two hours everytime it happens to set my itouch back to how I had it, just to lose it again.
Can anyone inform me what I could be doing wrong?
Thanks,
Tico

manual sync and yes I do disconnect before unplugging just to be safe. I was told by apple that with the itouch its not really needed though.

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