IPod not reading in computer (please help!)

Basically, both my work and my home computers stopped being able to read the iPod. However, I know it is not a problem with the computers since on the iPod itself, nothing appears under the "artists" menu anymore. Instead, everything, including music and video simply appears in the "videos" directory.
This sounds like a data corruption issue.
Anyway, this happened a month ago, and after consulting everything I could, including this forum, it seemed the only solution was to restore my iPod and loose all of its information.
Well, tonight it just happened again, and once again I had to wipe my memory clean.
Please, please tell me what I can do about this?=. Should I take it in to get serviced? (It's only 3 months old.) I just fear the same thing might happen again regardless.
An iPod with a one-month memory-life is pretty much worthless to me.
Thank you very much for your help!

Thanks for the response.
Well, it seems like the file-structer on the iPod itself keeps getting corrupt. On the iPod, suddenly everything other than one band disappears from the "artists" folder. However, everything appears under the "playlists" folder.
Also, interestingly enough, all my music playlists also appear under the video playlists. Oh and the one band remaining in the correct artists folder also has the playlist for that band in the "movies" folder
I'm a software engineer, even if there's a way to manually change the info files on the iPod, I am more than willing to give it a shot.
Also, I should note that today everything was fine on the way back from work; it only corrupted itself when plugging into the computer (and not even downloading anything!)
And obviously with everything corrupted iTunes cannot read it thus I cannot add anything. The only solution I have found so far is to restore (until it happens again.)
Thanks again for the response!

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