IPod wont sync, battery always says it's charged, etc...

I got my iPod classic around December 2005, everything was fine until a few days ago, Christmas day to be exact. I had transferred my music to an external hard drive so as not to take up so much space on my laptop. I plugged in my hard drive, after not using it for a month or so, opened iTunes and 3/4 of my songs had that little next to them and the files could not be found. I plugged my iPod into the computer and it just came up with the red circle with the line through it and said "Do not disconnect" it won't sync anything and will only go back to a normal screen when I eject it. It does this on my desktop computer as well. Aslp the battery always says it's charged, I never know when I need to charge it until it dies. I plug it in to charge it and the battery icon always has the lightning bolt, but the battery gauge always says it's full. I had 500 songs and, I only about 100 with out the little next to it. Am I SOL or can this be fixed?

I bought a new ipod

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