IPod doesn't recognise the library it's synced with

I'm not sure since when precisely, but very recently my iPod has stopped being synced with my Mac. "Sync Music", for example, is no longer selected, and when I do select it, I get warned that everything will be removed from the iPod and replaced with songs from my library.
The thing is, except for updates from Apple, nothing has changed with either my Mac or my iPod since it last worked.
I've only got USB 1.1 so I really don't want to have to put everything that's already on the iPod back on there! Any ideas, please...?
Cheers!
iMac G4 (17)   Mac OS X (10.4.3)   iTunes 7.2 (34)

See this older thread from another forum member Zevoneer on different ways to copy music from your iPod back to your PC.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2417169?start=0&tstart=0
B-rock

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