Lots of frustrating problems for novice nano owner...any help out there?

Have had my nano a week and had problems as soon as i tried to move songs onto it! It would only work if i did it manually song by song, any other way the whole screen would freeze and i had to disconnect the ipod. This morning i plugged it in and i get several ominous grey boxes saying 'The file or directory\ipod_control\itunes\itunesDB is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the chk dsk utility' Now all my songs have disappeared from the ipod and i can't get any more on...they appear in the ipod contents but not on the actual ipod.
Am i being really dumb? Have i missed something obvious?? Please help!

Pretty much the ipod is going to need to be repair. I would suggest taking it into the nearest Apple Store because they give you a 10% discount for older ipods towards a new ipod.

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