Ipod formatted windows quit working

Hello,
I have a 20g ipod that I formatted to windows so I could move it between my home mac and my work pc. This was going great until about a month ago my mac quit recognizing my ipod and would prompt me with the "update or restore" window...with only the restore to original factory settings button available to push. I really don't want to lose all my music I have on there but I can't even pull up my ipod in itunes. Anyone have any ideas what may have happened? I can still see the ipod as a hard disk on my desktop...?
ibook

If you format your ipod in windows, you have to update it in windows as well. This means using a windows machine.

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