IPod has erased its data, no longer appears in iTunes/deskto

I have switched using my iPod from the Windows system I began with to an iBook G4, but did not reset my factory settings because much of the music on the pod does not exist on my old computer.
I recently was adding files to my iPod on the Mac in iTunes. I disconnected the Pod, and when I tried to listen to the new stuff 10 minutes later, all the files--songs, contacts, podcasts, etc.--had gone missing from the iPod. Now it won't even show up in iTunes or on the computer anywhere but on the system profiler as the other end of the Firewire when connected to the Mac, and no where at all when connected to the old Windows machine. What can I do? Are the songs recoverable? How do I get a computer to recognize the device again??

It appears from many other posts that the " Keep This iPod in the Source List" function isn't included in iTunes 7 unfortunately. You can leave your feedback on it's absence at this link: Apple Product Feedback
You can check out a workaround at this link which may help out for now: Create ready-to-sync playlists for Shuffles in iTunes 7

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