IPod won't open in iTunes, won't play music

K so a few days ago, for no apparent reason, I kept getting a message from windows saying it had to scan and fix the ipod (which is managed manually on itunes 10). fixing wouldnt seem to do anything, but if I clicked continue the ipod still worked fine. I could put music on it, it would play etc.
then yesterday, I plugged it in to the computer, and itunes would just become unresponsive. when I pulled out the ipod, itunes would work again. the ipod would play, but i wouldnt be able to add music to it. i tried restarting everything i could think of, to no effect.
soooo then today, windows prompted me to fix again. so it "fixed" the ipod, and magically the ipod would open in itunes. so I added some music to it and went on my merry way. but now the ipod itself doesnt work. when I highlight "music" the side of the screen says "no music". when I look in the about section, there is 113 gigs of "other" files, which should be music. when I plug back into itunes it doesn't work at all.

Same exact problem here and I have found no clues yet.

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