Itunes suddenly deleted my Ipod

I have a Mac Mini AND a PC, so I've been able to test that the issue is NOT with my (brand new) IPod Nano. Everything was fine, my music had been synced for weeks, no problem. Today, I bought a new MP3 album and went to sync it to my IPod; as soon as I clicked on the album, I saw at the bottom the little bar graph that shows how much of each content you have drop down to nil. Foolishly, I thought that it was a error and went ahead and synced my Ipod. Well, now my Ipod is empty. Zip. Ziltch. Nado. Hm? So I went ahead and REdowloaded the newest version of Itunes. Restarted my computer. Started all over again. It SEEMED like it was working; I was able to add the same albums back on. Yay! NOT! It started to sync and then right at the end---POOF---it deletes everything AGAIN
I went upstairs, restored my IPod to use it on my PC and REFUSED the newest download of Itunes and MAGIC, I've got some songs on my Ipod. Thus, I know that it's not the Ipod itself. So, I come back downstairs, RESTORE the Ipod to go back onto the Mac and POOF......no more music.
I also downloaded 3 albums in one day and only 2 of them made it to Itunes. When I try to move the third one over, it keeps telling me that I don't have "access privileges". Huh? I've changed nothing in setting or preferences or anything. I downloaded the other 2 albums just fine. The one that I downloaded today, moved to Itunes just fine. I've downloaded ALL of my albums from Amazon and never had an issue, (I have several hundred songs from Amazon), just this ONE CD won't budge.
I'm very frustrated that I would have to PAY someone to help me through Apple. What a racket It's clearly THEIR issue. At any rate. . . . .can anyone help me here??

Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync/delete all music and resync
To delete all music go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage>Music>Tap edit in upper right and then tap the minus sign by All Music
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

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