PC to Mac iPod nano user

I've had my nano for over a year now and haven't had any problems going from a PC to a Mac. . .until today. My nano is formatted for a PC, but I've been able to play the music on my Mac at work.
Not today. It seems like all the music has been deleted!! All the song titles still show up, but no music plays. I even tried it on itunes, but I get that little exclamation point by the song title. Aaarggh.
This is a stupid question but if my nano has a 3.7 GB capacity and 3.6 GB is available. . .does that mean everything is really gone????
Any ideas why this would have happened? I did leave it plugged it at work overnight, but could that have caused it to delete everything?
someone just let me know if I need to restore. . thanks!

I think you'll need to restore your iPod on the computer with your iTunes repository. This will delete everything, but then you'll be able to re-load it all.
Since you say all the song names still show up, it sounds like some kind of directory corruption. Just a guess.
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