Music disappearing on Ipod after Sync

I got a ipod video 30 gig for christmas and haven't been able to fully enjoy it.
I imported my mp3 into the latest veriosn of itunes with no problem. When i try to sync my ipod it shows that it had synced but when i check the ipod it is empty. i know it did sync because the space is being used on the ipod. If i put it into disc mode i can see the files on the ipod. I tried restoring many times, i tried uninstalling and reinstalling itune but nothing seems to help. I tried chaning the drive letter. but still nothing. i went to the apple store and a tech told me that it might be that i am using windows Xp pro so i reformatted and went to windows home edition. I am still having the same problem. The other day the only way my ipod would since was if i didn't include any song that started with a "S" so i unchecked 76 songs that started with s and it synced. But no it won't even do that. i am reduced to going into disc mode every day and deleting the music folder and the ituned.db file so i cam try syncing the ipod. I just tried to sync around 240 files and i check my ipod and it tells me that i only have 80 files for some reason. Can anyone help ?
Thanks

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