IPod filled up?

I have what I think is a 2nd generation 15 GB iPod. It has the four touch buttons on the top and the touch wheel. It was originally formatted on Windows. Anyway, so it said there were only 169 songs on it but it was taking up 8.6+ GB of music. So I deleted them off but then when I look at it, it says that there's still 8.6 GB taken up and so now I can't put all of my original songs that I had because it thinks it's filled up when really it isn't. This problem happened when I had to hold down the power button to shut off the computer because the computer crashed on me for some reason. When I rebooted it it said something about a .xml file being imported and it was damaged. So I decided to solve the problem later and I shut down the computer becuase I had other business to attend to. When I came back, I noticed that there were only 169 songs in my library instead of my original 2649. I went to File>Add to library and then imported all my songs from their locations. They play fine but it says that they won't fit on my iPod. Even under the "About" section on the iPod, it says that it has 8.6+ GB of stuff on it. What's wrong with it? I would like to be able to play music on my MP3 player! If reformatting is the only answer, I would like to know how.

I have a similar proble. my 4gb mini says it's totally full but i only had 2.5gb worth of music in i-tunes? i've just gone out and bought a new 20GB i-pod and after uploading some music i-tunes says that there is 2.98GB worth of music but the new ipod shows 6.20GB of storage used! any ideas why?

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