Music and podcasts keep erasing themselves on Iphone 4s

This is driving me nuts. I've had the phone for a year now and it only just started doing this in the last week. Everytime I go to listen to something on my phone its all gone! When I plug it into the computer it shows that the music and podcasts should be loaded to it but they simply are not. I used to have it on wireless sync and I thought maybe that was the problem but I've since turned it off and am still having the issue.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on here?

Try deselecting Sync Music under the Music tab and deselect Sync Podcasts under the Podcasts tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes followed by a sync. This should remove all music and podcasts from the iPhone.
Follow this by reselecting Sync Music and Sync Podcasts checking your selections below for being transferred to the iPhone followed by a sync.

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