Ipod video 80Gb recognised as ipod photo once in a while

I have this weird problem where my 80 Gb Ipod Video is displayed as an 80 GB Ipod Photo, and when this happens, I lose all my videos, Now this is just temporary, all I have to do is ejct it and replug it, most of the times fixes the problem, but I am tired of having to wait an hour to sync all my videos again, so I wanted to know if there was a fix for this?
thx,
z3r0c00l
Home-made Gaming   Windows XP Pro   AMd 4200+, m2n32 sli, 7600GT, 250Gb, 2GB 667

i have the same problem. its really annoying! it always seems to happen when i only have 1 or 2 new things to add. murphy's law i guess

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