Must do a restore, but iPod won't connect to iTunes 7.0

Hi,
I have an iPod mini that I bought last year. I updated to iTunes 7.0 a few days ago and everything was going fine, but today I noticed that all of my songs were gone (on the iPod).
I tried to plug my iPod back into my laptop to put all the songs back into it, but iTunes gave me this message:
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/3981/error2ii5.jpg
"iTunes cannot read the contents of the iPod "IPOD". Go to the Summary tab in iPod preferences and click Restore to restore this iPod to factory settings."
The thing is, my iPod can't connect to iTunes, so I can't get to the Settings section to restore my iPod. What can I do? Is there another way to restore the iPod so that it will connect to iTunes?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
iPod mini Windows XP
Windows XP

I have the same problem; after installing iTunes 7 I get the error message stated above but can not view summary since it can not connect. I still have all my songs though. I have tried to reset and going into disk mode, but seems my iPod can not go into disk mode.
Is it possible to get the older version of iTunes back?Thanks,

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