ITunes on the fritz

So me and my sister both have iPods right? And our computer has two USB ports. So we use both at the same time to update or recharge the battery or whatever needs to be done.
I got my iPod first so mine was the first to be plugged in. As soon as my sister plugged in HER iPod to the computer, iTunes (for her) went crazy. First off it deleted all but 4 of her songs (on her iPod at the time) and second, you knwo when you go into iTunes and you go to your iPod and you can play songs from iTunes from your iPod? All of her songs that are on the iPod are "greyed" out. Meaning, you can see them, you can read what they are, but yuo can't actually selecet any of them.
Well, if anyone has had anyhting like this happen to them help would be fantastic.
If you could jsut e-mail me at [email protected] and make the subject "iTunes help" or soemthing that would be awesome
Cheers,
J-Holl

iTunes uses a core system process, in this way the application is user-independant
you can use different iPods on the same account just not at the same time, theoretically if you want to use two iPods at once you need two computers.
sorry.
regards,
Pete.

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