ITunes 10 deletes 64GB of media from iPod

I just downloaded and installed iTunes 10. I then planned on syncing my 5th gen. iPod (80GB). Luckily, the new iTunes version has a preview of space use after sync. With each setting that I changed (e.g. syncing an additional playlist to my iPod) this space use preview changed from 1,8GB free space to 65GB of free space. So essentially, if I hit "Sync", iTunes 10 will delete all but a little of my media from my iPod.
Does that have to do with the fact that most my media is not stored anymore on my local hard drive? Did anybody else encounter this bug and found a way around it? If not, I will have to downgrade back to iTunes 9.

Talked to Apple support. Apparently, I am a very rare kind. I appear to be the only one still using a four year-old iPod and also the only one who moves files from his local hard disk once they’ve synced to the iPod. Support guy said he’d never heard of a problem like this and I’m supposed to leave all my media on my PC’s hard disk (which would thus be full five times over).
He told me to keep using iTunes 9 if that did what I wanted it to do and it’s what I’m doing now. Uninstalled iTunes 10, installed iTunes 9.2.1.5. Wouldn’t start, saying the iTunes Library file was created by a newer version. So I had to revert to an earlier version of the file (as far as I know only possible in Windows Professional). Now it works as before.
Hope my iTunes 10 problem will fix itself in upcoming versions as I can’t expect developers to have me in mind.

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