Problem with my iPod - all the music information became unreadable 'other'

I connected my iPod today to upload some new music files and something appears to have gone wrong. I can't 'see' any of my music at all on the iPod OR on iTunes. The iPod Summary Screen on iTunes (ver 7) shows that there is over 20GB of information marked as 'other' on my iPod, plus my photos and videos, but it shows no music at all. Naturally, I could restore the factory settings and re-upload all my music from my external hard drive, but obviously I would prefer not to do so because it would mean a huge amount of time. Is there any suggestion as to how I might be able to force iTunes to recognise the music files on the iPod WITHOUT a restore? I have tried a 'soft' restore on the iPod unit itself but alas with no success. If there is anything that can be suggested I would be very, very grateful. Thanks, Sam
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) iPod Video Query

Whilst you've been awaiting an answer (and double posting), you could have restored it and reloaded the music. : )

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