IPod reboots in an infinite loop!!! :-(

hi all,
I've had many iPods, starting from the 5 GB mechanical wheel model -- but what happened right now was the worst thing ever and I'm really p*ssed.
All of a sudden, my 60GB color iPod began to boot while standing in its dock.
But it didn't boot just once but over and over again.
I took it out of the dock and tried the MENU/CENTER button combination -- to no avail. It continued booting. (Apple logo, light on, light off, repeat...)
I then used the AC adapter and put the iPod directly to an AC outlet.
No change in behaviour!
Tried several key combinations. No avail.
Plugged it out of the outlet back into the dock, this time via USB (usually it's connected via firewire-dock.)
Still same behaviour.
Pressed the center and the play/pause button at once for several seconds and the iPod stopped booting! BUT the display came up with a monochrome version of the OS and showed "disc mode" and "OK to disconnect".
what the ...?!!??
disconnected, rebooted with menu/center.
it restarted in color mode with the apple logo and finally came back to normal operation -- I THOUGHT ...
put it into the dock (USB) again -- it didn't mount in os x (10.4.2). neither in Finder, nor in iTunes.
so I pulled it again out of the dock and put it in again.
this time it mounted -- BUT iTunes showed NOT A SINGLE OF MY APP. 3500 SONGS!!!! AAARRRRGGGNNNN!!!!
although the bar at the bottom of the itunes window showed that 9.1 GB are used ... hyper strange!
after I put it out and into the dock once more, now iTunes (always v6) says that only 621.2MB are used.
With Terminal I searched all the Fxx directories in the iPod_Control/Music folder and they're all empty!
WHAT THE xxxx HAPPENED?!?!?!?!?
I was always so excited about Apple products and their quality and told all my friends how proud I am to be an Apple and especially an iPod user! But now THIS???
Do I really want to buy that new video iPod? Up til this happened I thought yes. but now? ...
maximum disappointed,
Stefan.

More than likely your firmware has been damaged and you need to restore your ipods firmware. This does though delete everything on your iPod. If it still isn't starting up or showing up on your computer you can put your iPod into disk mode. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651. That will tell you how.

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