Left new iPod to charge --- disappeared from iTunes.

Question

I have a brand new iPod 160gb that I just bought.
When I first plugged it in, I went through all the set up areas..In iTunes, I clicked where it says get updates.. I then got an error messge with that, which told me to eject my ipod and plug it in again. (The update went through fine when I plugged it back in.)
I did that and I SAW it come back on iTunes. Since it was brand new, I wanted to let it power up the battery for four hours. I left it running and was planning to add all my music before unplugging it..
BUT when I came back after 4 hours, it disappeared from being listed on my iTunes. I had an old ipod and it NEVER did this.
I had to go in an manually eject this new ipod (in My Computer).
Is there a reason why it did this? Should I restore the ipod just in case (to be on the safe side)? Still have not added any music.
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Answer 1

I have a 60GB Ipod and it is doing the exact same thing.
Puchased songs just skips right thru. I went to apple store
where I purchased and they wern't much help. I was told to
go home and do a restore. Didn't help at all so I called
the applecore support and they had me do another restore.
This did not work either so they had me ship it back to them. Once they received it they claimed it was fine. Well
they must not have tried going into my purchased from itunes directory. They had the nerve to not replace it.2 weeks and 6000 miles later it still will not play the purchased songs from ipod. I want to say that originally
when i purchased the songs from itunes they played. So it's like one day it just stopped playing all purchased from itunes music. Just wanted to let you know it's not you
there is a major issue here and it started around 3 weeks ago. I beleive they know there is an issue but won't admit it. Shame as I almost was gonna convert from windows to an
apple computer not now though. Like I said they have given me the runaround here and im more than dissatified im really ****** @ this point. So for now all we cando is listen to music that we bought from CD's & added to ipod.
You would think that they would want this type of problems
fixed as they stand to lose money if I can't play purchased from itunes music Im sure not gonna buy it from them to have it start to play and then skip thru the 60 sonfs I purchased from them. Sorry to give you the bad news,but I think we are screwed.
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