ITunes Automatic Syncing Suddenly All Screwy

Ok, let me break down my problem in the order things happened:
1. I synced my iPod Touch (1G) and went outside to mow the lawn for two hours, listening all the while.
2. I wanted to continue the audiobook I was listening to on my PC while I worked, so I synced my iPod to get the up-to-date place where I left off.
3. I noticed that iTunes was suddenly copying thousands of new songs onto my Touch, an odd behavior, but when I further investigated, it had deleted all my videos and since there was all this free space, it now was filling it with random music.
4. I stopped the sync and did a restore, hoping this would fix the automatic syncing issue (I have about five playlists set to automatically sync to the Touch with videos, music, and audiobooks).
5. After restoring and reseting the automatic syncing settings ... it still wouldn't copy any videos or audiobooks over and wanted to fill the Touch to the brim with random music.
6. So I thought maybe something was suddenly wrong with the Touch itself and set the Touch to Manual Management ... dragged over a video and lo-and-behold ... it synced it perfectly.
7. I restarted iTunes (since I now know it's an iTunes problem).
8. Same issue.
9. Uninstalled and Reinstalled iTunes.
10. Same issue.
11. Tried my iPod Touch 3G ... now it is devoid of all videos, audiobooks, and playlists ... BTW -- Apps are all still working because I have both Touches set to "Sync ALL Apps" ...
So what the ** is wrong with my iTunes that it no longer does any Automatic Syncing? I really don't want to manually manage ALL five of my iPods ...

So ... for some reason, now it's working ...
So I guess the last step, the solution is to come on these forums and complain about the issue and it then magically goes away.
Just my luck.

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