Itunes deleted my ipod music...

this is annoying... i thought i waited long enough for itunes to become predictable before upgrading from 6 to 7... last night, i decided to update itunes on my home computer... it seemed to work ok. i played some songs from it and imported another cd... it all seemed to work fine. i plugged in this is annoying... i thought i waited long enough for itunes to become predictable before upgrading from 6 to 7... last night, i decided to update itunes on my home computer... it seemed to work ok. i played some songs from it and imported another cd... it all seemed to work fine. i plugged in my ipod, it looked fine. i synced my ipod... it copied 7 songs and i watched the display and saw it was updating what had changed in my computer since the last ipod sync... itunes indicates successful sync... i turned off the auto sync and unmounted the ipod... i came to work today, plugged my ipod into my work computer and itunes shows NO music... after about 5 minutes of clicking thru the different options to see what was wrong with itunes on my work computer, itunes crashed unexpectedly (as opposed to an expected crash... grin) i unmounted my ipod and used the ipod to sort thru my music. my ipod display shows NO music... argh!! i don't know if somehow the itunes on the work computer wiped out my music or if something went wrong with the sync last night... there was no indication on either end of a problem... the work computer didn't show that it was changing anything on my ipod when i plugged it in... they are both on itunes 7.0.2... i'll have to do some research at home to see what is wrong...
my usage may be differnent than what most people do, since use mulitple computers and just plug in my ipod as the storage media and the local itunes on my different computers to play the songs on my ipod... so, i keep sycning turned off and only turn it on when i want my home itunes to copy songs onto it... yes, i also play music thru my ipod head phones...
looks like i have some research to do tonight...
has anyone else ran into this before?
PBG4, dual G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi Jeffery,
Haven't had that problem, anything useful here:
Using iPod with multiple computers
Regards,
Colin R.

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