I turned off my ipod and turned it back on, and lots of apps are grayed out

I have an Ipod touch 2nd gen 16gb, and I turned it off last night, and turned it back on, and lots of the apps lost the picture for their icon, all of the data is there, but the icons are grayed out, I tried restoring from a backup, and restoring, and nothing helped. I thought it had to do with the putting iOS 4.3 on it, since I am stuck on 4.2.1, and I tried the same with my 3rd gen 8gb, the 3rd gen also grayed out the apps, and when I plugged it into Itunes to update to 4.3, I had iTunes check for updates, and it didn't find anything, please help!

Your "3rd gen 8gb" iPod is really a 2G iPod. Apple only made 32 and 64 GB 3G iPods.
You stated: "I tried restoring from a backup, and restoring, and nothing helped." What do you mean by the second restoring?
Have you tried restoring to factory defaults/new iPod since you may have corruption that is also in your backup.

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http://tinyurl.com/85w6xwn
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