ITunes deletes all the music off of my iPod. Why?

iTunes is being a huge piece of crap. I want it to sync my songs onto my iPod Touch 4G. Instead, it decides to delete all 5500+ songs off of my iPod... twice. Once, I managed to put the songs back on, this takes over an hour and a half, then it deletes them again the next day. HELP ME PLEASE! I AM SO MAD WITH THE SERVICE I AM GETTING!

If the songs are removed from your iPod at a Sync, then presumably, you have a setting somewhere that is causing this.
First of all, you are not trying to Sync with two different Libraries, are you? The iPod is designed to Sync with one Library only, if you try to connect your iPod to a different computer (with a second Library), then all the original content will be removed.
Then - when the iPod is connected to your iTunes Library, check on the Device/Summary pane and confirm that the Sync Music is "on" and Entire music library is also "on".
If neither of these steps provides a solution, walk us through whatever you are doing when the music disappears from your iPod.

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