IPod Losing Preferences?

I just started using a bluetooth adapter for my iPod. It works beautifully, but I just went to watch a video and they weren't there. A bit confused by this, I decided to plug in my iPod and see if they were still there. Most of them were, but I tried to play them and it just froze iTunes (PC). I then tried unplugging it and plugging it back in. Now the PC doesn't even recognize it. So I switched it over to the Mac and it came up fine. Unfortunately, the videos claim that they aren't videos even tho when I play them they come up as videos. I can't reformat because I'll lose anything.

Guys, I really need help with this immediately. I need to have this as a demo for work in the next day or two so I need to get this resolved. Even if you just have a simple suggestion, please post it. If I have tried it, I'll let you know. Thanks!

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Hi,
my ipod frozen and I have to restart, but problem is when restart my iPod so all preferences is losed. I try make restore, then restart and preferneces losed again. Do you know why after restart my iPod losed preferences?
Thanks Jan
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A restore will lose the preferences because you are returning the iPod to it's factory default settings.
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Hi,
Hopefully, this is going into the correct forum. I realize this is probably a very stupid question, but I have a 60 GB iPod Photo with over 9,000 songs on it.
I just went through the painstaking task of correcting all of the song entries that iTunes screwed up when importing (spelling mistakes, things like that).
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Since these songs already existed on the pod, I'm just wondering why I lost a bunch of space when all I did was change text associated with the file. After the update, I waited to see if the pod would recognize it and bump the available space back up, but it didn't...it's almost like there are now 2 versions of the file on the iPod (though only 1 shows) as it has taken the space away.
Is this the way it works, or is there any way I can regain the space back that I had before this last update (taking in mind, that I didn't load any new music onto the iPod...I just changed some of the info).
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Artwork was already on the original file. All I did was literally change either the name of the song title or the album title on the info tab. Artwork was already there from when I imported the songs originally.
Makes sense that this would happen if iTunes thinks this is brand new file, but by losing the space, it appears to me that iTunes thinks there are two files, while the iPod only shows one.
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http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/classic/
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