ITunes and Ipod no longer recognize or has deleted my library

Hello all. I am coming here for help from the pros, so be gentle!
This morning, I opened my ipod to see that many of my playlists were missing and the songs from those playlists were gone. In addition, when connecting to the computer, the same problem occurs. I don't know exactly how many songs were lost, but it is quite troubling. I tried a reset and that did not help. It was working fine yesterday and even last night while playing Starcraft.
Since Starcraft is an older game, my second screen was not working properly. itunes made several prompts and it looked liekit was scannign my ipod in the usual update fashion. Once I finished the mission, I then shut down my computer as it seemed liek the ipod was doen updating.
Any ideas?

Hi, Linda from Folsom. Thanks for the message.
While I do run iolo system mechanic, my issues did not start until *after* I downloaded iTunes 10.5.2.
On the same date I updated iTunes, I also downloaded a Java update. I did these one after the other so didn't now which updated started the issue.
I later found that my issues were also related to iCloud usage for syncing, which I resolved this week by eliminating iCloud from my life (other than backing up my iPhone).
I posted something in the community about how I undid everything iCloud did to my Outlook, but my solution is only for those who no longer want to use iCloud with Outlook.
That's an interesting point about the iolo system because I didn't have any issues at all with it (until I updated iTunes).
I had a very similar system setup at the time as you do:
iPhone 4 with OS 5.0.1
Outlook 2007 (now I have 2010 version)
iTunes 10.5.2
Windows 7 home premium (now I have the Windows 7 ultimate version).
I will be interested to hear if your iolo system caused some issues as I do like using it for clean up on my hard drive. When I couldn't use Outlook, I went to "JustAsk.com" and paid the small fee to find out that you can repair office from the control panel programs list; this is what solved my issue. 
If you haven't tried it, it's pretty easy:
Open Control Panel
Select Programs
Find Office on the programs list
RIGHT click on it
Select repair
Windows installer runs, then restart
After I did that, iPhone could see Outlook again. That could be where the registry issue is happening with iolo.
Hope this is helpful,
Cecilia

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