Itunes wants me to restore ipods factory settings

bought ipod nano 4GB yesterday, I imported music straight from CDs to itunes and managed to get most of them on to ipod just fine. But some albums would not import to ipod. They are all AAC audio format. I was advised to reset ipod so I did and tried again to put itunes library onto ipod.
Now, everytime I try to connect ipod, an itunes warning pops up saying that 'itunes cannot read the contents on the ipod. use the ipod software updater application to restore the ipod to factory settings'
I don't want to mess up, any help and guidence would be very much appreciated!
thanks

please, if anyone can help, i'm pretty useless with computers!

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