Lost music on 4th gen for third time after updating iOS 6.0.1/iTunes?

Hello,
I have a 4th gen Touch that has worked perfectly until I updated to iOS 6.01 and iTunes 11.0.1 (at the same time, if that helps.)
Not 24 hours after doing so, all the music on my Touch was mysteriously gone. My apps, contacts, etc. were still fine. I wrote this off as a fluke and put everything back on. About a day and a half later, it did it again. After this, I read a thread or two and decided to restore the factory settings on the iPod to get rid of whatever this was.
That worked for a week. Yesterday, all of my music was mysteriously gone again. I'm at the last nerve with this, seeing as my iPod was perfectly fine before this.
The first time it deleted, all of my music was automatically synced. I store most of my music on an external hard drive--which is always attached, though--so I thought this could have been the issue the first time. The second and third times the music was deleted, I was manually adding music.
Does anyone have any idea what to do? Has this been an issue for anyone else? Thanks.

Only three times? You are lucky. I had this happen about 20 times since the IOS update.
When you look at your Ipod under "devices" in the sidebar, how much music is Itunes tryin to crowbar onto your device? Check out my screen cap to illustrate.
Do you lose all your playlists and podcasts on the ipod, too?
You can try unchecking music when you sync your ipod, then re checking and syncing again, but it only seems to be a band aid, and only sometimes.
I wish I could be more helpful, but I've posted several times with no results.

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