Ipod 4th gen. sync problems.

I have an ipod 4th gen.
I was upgrading it to the 5.0.1 software, everything went well until i tried to restore it from the backup.
The apps synced okay, but when the music and videos were syncing i got an error message.
Now i cannot sync any music or videos to my ipod touch.
The media is still in my itunes account, i just cannot get it onto my ipod.
Any help???

Perhaps you might grace us with the details of the error message?

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