Ipod Photo/Photos disappear/are deleted on reboot

My photo library seems to disappear sometimes on reboot. Today, when I switched on my ipod after not using it for a couple of days, I got the apple logo etc, but when I was back into the menus, my photos were gone. This has happened occasionally over the past few weeks (I only got the ipod in August). Is this normal? I can't believe it is! I've used up my one support call already so I can't ask Apple. If I manually reboot the ipod, sometimes I lose the photos, sometimes I don't. Anyone out there have the same problem? Anyone know what to do about it??? Ta! Sue

Hi Dave
Thanks for your comments. I get the photos back the minute I connect to itunes and the ipod updates automatically. Is a reset the same as reboot? The ipod software is up to date and I'm using 4.7 itunes - someone told me the only difference between that and 4.9 is podcasting. And anyway, there seems to be no problem syncing between the two. It's just the ipod that seems to be doing something odd all on its own! I'm reluctant to do a restore, as I have notes on the ipod that I'd have to copy again, tho' all the music is on hard drive. Do you really think that would help - the ipod is only about a month old and I did a restore initially to format the ipod hard drive for windows xp. Incidentally, the same thing happened on my first one, which I took back to the shop after a couple of weeks, because the display was scratched up when I got it, so this is a new replacement. Any further feedback would be very welcome - but thanks for the first reply. Sue.

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