Music Disappeared - Can't reset

One day when I was gonna play some music on my ipod mini (2 years old), it just hung up.
I managed to restart it, but then all the music was gone. I checked the "about" on the ipod, and it sais there are 0 songs, but there is only 1,9 GB free space.
When I connect it to my PC (Windows XP), it is recognised in itunes, but it's not available. The submenus that usually come up beneath the ipod icon in the left menu in itunes didn't come up.
A popup window in itunes told me i should restore my ipod beacuse it was damaged, but when i did, i was told that the ipod couldn't be restored, because it contained files that are being used by another program. I entered disk mode in the ipod, and then it was possible to restore the ipod via itunes. When that was done, the same as before happened. The very same popup came, and told me the same thing, that the ipod is damaged and I should restore it.
Does anyone know what could be the problem? I'd be very grateful for help.
Karl

See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
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