Ipod erases songs after I eject

So I'd say 1 out of about every 5 times I eject my ipod from Itunes, and disconnect it from my computer (AFTER the "Do Not Disconnect" screen has gone away), all of my songs and videos have been erased. When I try to plug it back in to my computer, itunes won't recognize my ipod, and asks me to restore my ipod to default settings, and to update the software. I downloaded the updater, and updated and restored my ipod, but the same thing continues to occur.
I couldn't find an answer in the FAQ's. Should I send it in to be serviced since it's covered under warranty? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ok after I restored it, everything has been working ok, but this has happened before so, I'm still skeptical.
What doesn't make sense is that I had a 30gb Ipod Video before, and never had any problems like this with it. Now I have a 60gb Ipod Video, and I keep having this problem. If this drive letter thing is the issue, why didn't it happen with my 30gb?
Also, one thing I've noticed happen when I change my ipod settings from automatic update to manual, it gives me an error message saying "An error has occured while updating the default player for audio file types. You do not have enough access priveleges for this operation".

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IPod erases songs after ejected?

Hi, I hope someone can help me with my problem.
Last night I tried putting a few more songs on my iPod 5th Gen. It stopped copying and iTunes didn't see my iPod anymore. I disconnected it, and tried plugged it back in via USB. All of my songs were erased, including pictures and videos. iTunes wasn't seeing my iPod and Windows was giving an error, so I tried to restore it the first time and it gave a Delayed Write message. Very frustrated now, I restarted, plugged in my iPod and it restored perfectly. Then I tried putting songs on it and I had all my songs back on, ready to go. I ejected the iPod and all of my songs and videos were erased, but my pictures were still there. Now I'm getting a folder with an exclamation, and I've tried all of the suggestions on the Support page.
My iPod is just a little over a month old and it's frustrating to see something I spent a lot of money on not working.
Can anyone help me with this problem?
Thanks,
Matt

I had just figured out how to fix this problem, believe it or not!
First exit out of iPod Updater and iTunes.
Get into Windows Task Manager, click Processes tab.
The iPodService.exe, iTunesHelper.exe must be messing around with the iPod. End those processes and any other that has to do with your iPod or iTunes, and keep your iPod connected while you do this. Then run the iPod updater and it should work if you want to restore.
That fixed my problem!
I hope Apple does something about this in a new version of iPod Updater so people (like me) aren't freaking out that their iPod is messed up.
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Hi latriste,
I had the same problem when I thought I could delete songs from my hard drive and connect my shuffle (with those songs still on it). When I did connect my shuffle, it updated itself, and the songs I didn't have on my HD were deleted from my shuffle.
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