My iPod Mini is all screwed over. "Invalid B-Node size."

Alright, so one day, i plug in my mini after my bro went and got music on it from a PC, though I didn't know that, he had just given it to me. I plugged it in, it told m e i had to restore, i didn't like the songs on it so i said yeah sure blah blah blah...
Then my dog knocked it off my desk and the cable ripped out of it. SO i plugged it back in and it said a bunch of stuff then the options to Eject, Ignore, or Initialize. I hit Initialize and found it as a hard disk in disk utility.
Yes, i use a Mac, and eMac to be exact. so i hit Verify disk and it says...
"Verifying disk "".
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Invalid B-tree node size
The volume needs to be repaired.
Volume check failed.
Verify completed."
Other than the " " at the ends that is exactly what it says, i don't have to option to repair the disk either...when i try to boot the iPod it has the folder with "!" and the URL to iPod support.
Can anyone help? I'm 14 n' need my frickin music >: (
eMac   Mac OS X (10.2.x)  

No you don't get it, my comp can't read it's 'volumes' so the iPod Updater doesn't even think one is plugged in, the iPod Updater just says, "Please insert an iPod." so there is no realy way to use the Updater that i know of.

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