Music coming up as "other" - file corruption

Hello,
Im one of the unfortunate people who's ipod has had a file corruption and all the music is coming up as "other".
Im away from my main comp that has all my music, and using a laptop. When I first plugged it in I made a restore point just in case. Now I've used that restore point (like many threads have suggested) but it hasn't worked! I can't really just start again as all my apps and music are saved onto the other computer that I cant get to. Any ideas?
Thanks!

Ok, I ended up using a free program called iphonebrowser, having read about it on this site:
http://iphonetouch.blorge.com/2008/05/09/how-to-get-music-off-an-ipod-touch-ipho ne-in-windows/
So I copied all my music (was only 5GB) and then plugged my ipod touch in and am just transferring it all back. Obviously this is fine as I only had a small amount, but I lost my playlists as well. Any different ideas would be appreciated!

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