Music disappeared, help me restore!

I have a 5G iPod video. All of a sudden last night all music and video disappeared, but not my pictures, while it was connected to my PC and had iTunes running. I would love to get my music back, and it seems it might be there!
iTunes show an empty iPod, as does the iPod. But if I check the information on the iPod it says 0 songs, 0 videos, 125 pictures. Maximum capacity 27,8GB. Availible storage: 24GB. Theres something occupying 3,8GB, and this could very well be my music! The pictures are small and only occupy a couple of MB, and my music should have taken around 4GB, so I believe this must be my music!
Can you help me retreive it? It seems to be there, but I cannot make the iPod list and play it.
Furthermore, when the accident occured iTunes decided to put my iPod as an external device, and the checkbox is grayed so I cannot unselect it. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Johan

eva_longoria: Just drag and drop them in iTunes. Im glad you found your music.
I was not as lucky. My music was NOT seen through windows explorer, iTunes and the iPod updater erased it. I was able to restore it by using a recovery program, Recover My Files. Unfortunately this program managed to recover a whole lot else, since my ~4GB of music ended up in 20GB of restored files. A lot of these files are broken, some are half songs etc. And most of the files have filenames without meaning (e.g. _TEF.mp3) and have their ID-tags erased. Meaning that if I want my music back I have 20GBs of files to LISTEN through AND decide what artist, song and album it is from.
I have been talking to Apple who have admitted that other people have had the exact same problem - that THEIR software erases the users music - but they take no responsibility and expect me to just live with it.
As you said jbrictor - one shouldnt trust the iPod. One have to have a backup of everything. I made the mistake of trusting it.
/goe - musicless and quite disappointed with Apple

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