My itunes capacity bar is nearly full but ipod empty

I have just updated to Itunes 8 and then when i plugged my ipod touch in to update it the capacity bar in itunes has turned all orange and has also wiped all the songs from my touch. A message then appears saying there is not enough space to sync (even though ipod is empty).
Have tried to sync manually to no avail and have also reset the ipod.
Any ideas how i can fix this problem?

You might get a quicker answer to this by posting in the iPod Touch forum where other users might have some experience they can share: Discussions - Connecting iPod Touch to Windows

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I just plugged in my iphone and noticed that the capacity bar in itunes showing 12.8G of "others", I know I have songs, movies, pictures and books, but noting besides those and I used to have 22G of empty unusable space, so how can I check what those 12.8 G are and how can I remove them.
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Just turned off and back on and my "Others" shows 0.56G, which isn't a huge thing.
I wanted to delete my post, but what's done is done

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