IPod shows up, but won't show content

Hi,
I'm having this problem, when I plug in my iPod, it shows up in iTunes and syncs successfully, but the content on the device does not show up (like "Music" or "Videos" under the iPod section).
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I have a similar problem. Because space on my hard drive was growing slim, I moved my iTunes music library to an external drive. Since then, iTunes appears to think that the songs are on my iPod, but it appears that only the titles are there, for, in iTunes, when I have my iPod mounted and selected, the titles all appear in the list, but at the bottom of the window, there is hardly any memory used on the iPod (despite what used to be about 26GB).
I've tried changing the iPod preferences and even restored the iPod, only to find the same thing. The iPod mounted with the same name as previously, and the same thing happened....

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