IPod unable to play anything except most recently added....

I have a fifth generation iPod and usually use my PC to put music on it. Recently I used a mac to add a lot of videos and a few songs The result was that my ipod will now only play the videos and music that were added using the mac. I can see all of my other music under songs/artists/or albums but when I hit "play" it races through them without actually playing, just moving to the next song. The album art and song length comes up, but I cannot get them to play. When I hook the iPod up to itunes and try to play them from there a "!" comes up on the left. Suggestions?

Now i can't even get windows to reconize my ipod again. I just play it in and it freezes my computer until i unplug it. I have restarted, reset, and tried diskmode to no avail...
2500 barton oc @ 3200 2.2 ghz Windows XP

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