Itunes keeps telling me to restore my ipod to factory settings.

So I logged on to my computer this evening, and the iTunes icon was gone, so I used Search from the start menu found it and opened my library, When I did there was no music in it even though I have 103 songs, so I plugged in my ipod so that I could copy the songs on it to itunes and it opened saying I need to restore it. So I did and then it opened up the same thing over and over again.
So now I can't access any music on my ipod. Please help!

Is this a sony vaio?
There is some Sony media management software that causes a conflict with itunes saving its library database file.
See Redkeefy's post here
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8537277
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I spent an hour on the phone with Apple's tech support yesterday. The person I spoke to was very helpful, and suggested that the cause of the problem might be that my computer's hard drives used the NTFS file system, while my iPod was FAT32. He helped me to reformat my iPod to NTFS and then restore it once more. He was convinced this would solve my problems.
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