Music gone, doesn't recognize iTunes, won't even respond...

Felicitations, guys, :P
I have a four-year old white 30G iPod that's been working as perfectly as the day I got it...until now, and I'm getting a little frustrated. D: My family and I went on vacation for a month, and I brought my iPod along for the trip, of course. I don't have the regular iPod charger that fits into the wall, since I usually use my iHome to charge it, so over the vacation I used my computer cord and my dad's laptop to charge it.
This usually works fine, since he doesn't have iTunes (it's a Lenovo using Windows Vista) and therefore doesn't try to sync up...usually it just charges great. I always use the "safely remove hardware" tool to eject my iPod to use it, but about halfway through the vacation, after ejection, I found out that my iPod had nothing on it - no music, no videos, no photos. I checked the settings and it had all 30G of space on there, so everything was erased, not just corrupted (or so it seems; I'm not an expert.)
I searched my dad's computer for my music, but it wasn't there; I didn't really panic, though, since I figured I could just resync it to my iMac when I got home, and everything would be fine...
So, I'm home now, and everything isn't fine. I plugged in my iPod into my iHome to let it charge (it was dead) and when it had enough juice, plugged it into my computer to let it sync. What do I get? A message on the screen that says "Please plug into iTunes to reboot," or something like that - I can't quote verbatim. Well, I was already doing that, so I ejected my iPod and made sure it was reset, turned it off, turned it on, then plugged it back in...and there's no response from iTunes. It won't even acknowledge my iPod.
Right now it's still plugged into my computer, and all it says on the screen is "Do not disconnect" in a strange font. Nothing else. Is there anything I can do?
Thanks, everyone,
-Ari

Just an update - I let my iPod run out of battery and die, then plugged it back in. iTunes acknowledged that it had a corrupted file (I was wrong, then) and was going to restore the iPod, but it couldn't fix it due to an "unknown error." Then my iPod fitzed a little and shut down. Should I just guilt my parents into buying me an iPod Touch, which I've wanted for awhile?

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