Ipod not showing stored music

Hi, I have a 30gb, 5th gen iPod and Windows XP. Everything has been going pretty much rosy up until now, I have about 20gb's worth of music and about 4gb of video stored and after ejecting from my iPod port yesterday I found that all my music wasn't being displayed infact it said I had no music or videos stored on it at all, although i can view my pictures perfectly well on it.
I tried linking it back up to my PC to see if this was just a temporary problem because it has happened befoer a couple of times so wasn't really alarmed by it, anyway, I connected it, I don't have my ipod to sync automatically because i had to format my pc shortly after i had placed all my music on me so basically my ipod is my only copy of all my music apart from the cds.
When it had finally connected (it is painfully slow to sync with windows) it also said i had no music but i had 20 odd gb allocated to 'other' things, although 'autoplay' did appeear and go through a list of the artists and albums on it.
I am really desperate because I have to endure a 3 hour round trip to work everyday and without my ipod i am sure my brain will melt with boredom. Any other way to get my stuff back without restoring i would very much be thankful for (restoring is my last option because i don't want to have to go through every cd again and rip them like last time)
Thanks for your time reading this and for your help. : )
PS I can take screenshots and pictures if this is at all helpful
30gb iPod 5th gen Windows XP

What was I thinking of course screens would be helpful...
Usually when properly synced with the iPod more options would show under the 'SHANDA'S IP' section such as podcasts etc. and note I have 20gb of 'other' data
http://img71.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen1rx2.jpg
Here it shows that I have no music at all:
http://img470.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen2ez4.jpg

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