Itunes displays content on nano 6, ipod disagrees

An 16gb ipod nano 6th generation. Windows Vista at home, 7 at work, itunes up to date as of time of posting.
So, like many people I have a computer at home, and also one at work. I have previously happily added music to my ipod on both as I download and-or purchase it. I purchase only on my home computer, as I have a feeling doing otherwise will cause my purchases to be irrevocably split over two computers, but I am a massive consumer of beat-tapes, mixtapes, freebies and other such goodies from soundcloud, bandcamp and various other content distribution services, and the rotation is fairly constant both at home and work.
Recently, most times I add music to my ipod (i'm on 'manually manage my music' for obvious reasons) it's all on there and looking fiiine, but when I eject the ipod, it says 'no music'.
When I plug it back in to itunes, one of two things happen. Itunes will either
happily displays all my music, and can even play, rename,do whatever to it, but when I eject again it still says 'no music',
or say 'itunes cannot read the contents of etc etc, please restore'.
Either way, I end up with an empty ipod. I can only seem to load it once, in one go, rather than being able to add and remove bits.
Is my ipod starting to grow old and doddery, or is this a consequence of attempting to manage my music from more than one computer? Why's it only just started to happen in the last week?

I have the same problem and I havent found a good suppor in Itunes. What is the 3er party software?
Regards
Fussible9000

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