Music directory appears empty, but it's

I have a Creative Zen 32 GB.
Firmware version .2.0
Contains about 7 GB of music
I've had it for about 3 weeks, and it worked great until last night.
I listened to it for awhile yesterday afternoon, and then went to add some new music yesterday evening and ran into problems.
I opened Windows Explorer to 'drag and drop' the new mp3's and the Music directory appeared empty from within WE. I've added new music this way previously, and I was able to see all the subfolders of mp3's on my Zen; it looked just like browsing folders with? WE on my computer.
I unplugged the Zen, and verified that the music was still in the player, and it was.
I plugged it back in, and tried the Zen Media Explorer. I ran into the same problem. The music directory appeared empty when I tried to browse it from the ZME.
I went back to Windows Explorer and tried dragging and dropping a folder of new songs into the Music directory.
It acted like it was copying them, but afterwords, WE still read the directory as empty.
I unplugged the player and checked the music list, and the new songs were on there.
I thought maybe it was my home computer (Dell Dimension 8250 running Windows XP w/ SP2), so I tried my work computer today (Dell Optiplex 755 running Windows XP w/ SP2), and got exactly the same results. Tried both Windows Explorer and Zen Media Explorer, and neither one would view the contents of the Music directory on the Zen.
I downloaded the Recovery Tool and ran it. It upgraded the firmware, but that was all it did. I went back into Windows Explorer and Zen Media Explorer and there was no change. They both still show the directory as empty.
It seems like the problem is within the Zen player, since I've run into the same behavior on two different computers.
Has anyone out there run into a problem like this?

Hi,
(first of all: sorry for my bad English!)
I have the same exact problem, the music files stills in the Player (with the Folder Icon too) and the Zen still them correctly, but in the Media Explorer the Music Directory Is Empty.
Plus all the Videos and DataFiles (no multimedia files) have totally deleted from the player!!! (how it is possible?)
In this scenario (files in the Player but not showed in the Zen Music Folder) i've add some new files (with the Creative Media Explorer), the player correctly puts these new files in the list togheter with existing files, but in the Media Explorer -> Music Folder i can see only the new added files.
If i select Properties from Windows it tells me the right free space available (even if i couldn't see the files).
There is something i can do instead of Format the Player? (i've update the firmware but didn't change the situation)
Zen 8GB fw:.2.0e, no SD in the Player.
Thanks
Vahes?

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