IPod sync doesn't transfer files--but iPod is now missing all music/videos

I added some older songs to my library last night and this morning-they had been on a previous hard drive which I finally linked up with and imported them (just the music, nothing else).
I am using a 30gb 5.5 iPod, Windows XP pro SP2, Itunes 7.3 and my itunes and all files are kept on an external HDD. Never had a problem till now.
I imported the desired songs, and I can see them in my itunes library. So I connected my ipod to charge and to sync, and it said it was done syncing so I checked. And before I even checked, the bar that details ipod capacity had me worried-it went from 10gig free, to 27 gig free...
So I checked my ipod, and all music is gone. All movies and tv shows are gone. Only thing that survived was apparently my photos.
I did a restore of the ipod (since it was pretty much empty now anyways), and then re-synced when it was done, and the sync is completed way too fast, considering theres almost 20 gig waiting for it, and of course, nothing is going over.
I did, before it crapped out, go into movies/tv and select what I did and didnt want to sync, but I have since then gone back to the defaults, and that isn't helping.
Any ideas? Right now I have all my files usable in iTunes, but an empty iPod

Someone may have a better explanation, but I decided to remove the iPod from my system via my computer, rebooted, reconnected and now it's synching
though, oddly enough, 100 Beatles songs that I ripped from my CDs using iTunes, can't be located so I have to rip again I guess.....wasnt a problem before because the songs were on the iPod.
ah well

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