ITunes has killed my iPod-mini

A few days ago iTunes started saying my iPod-mini was "corrupted" and would no longer sync (or add new stuff).
I was suspicious that this was not true, but in order to ever add anything else I had no choice but to allow iTunes to reset the iPod, which means it is now EMPTY.
Then I resynced and iTunes claimed to have put everything back on the iPod, but when I try to eject the iPod-mini, iTunes hangs, and I have to "Force Quit." Meanwhile, the iPod-mini remains empty!
So now I have an empty iPod that iTunes claims has content and whenever I try to eject the iPod, iTunes crashes!
My nano seems to be syncing without any problems.

More details:
Since trying to eject the iPod-mini from iTunes crashes iTunes, I also tried ejecting it from the desktop. When I do this NOTHING happens.
Naturally, if I just remove it. I get an error message and the iPod is still EMPTY even though iTunes claims to have just put all then content on the device!
This does not make sense!

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