Itunes will not populate ipod

this is driving me nuts
downloaded itunes7 and while it sees my ipod and goes thru the motions of updating it, nothing actually gets put onto the ipod
deleted the software and reinstalled the original old itunes but same problem occurs
can anyone help?
otherwise i'm off to buy a creative zen

This Apple knowledge-base article may help address that issue.
Strange iPod behaviour.

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