Songs disappeared

I have a 3G iPod and have never had a problem until now.
My iPod says I have zero songs on it although it recognizes that I still am using all but 5.0 of the 37.2 GB available.
My iPod won't connect to iTunes. I keep getting the magnifying glass over the hard drive icon.
When I switch to Disk Mode my PowerBook G4 recognizes the iPod and Disk Utility gives the iPod as an option but Disk Utility freezes when I try to verify the iPod.
I've booted and rebooted both the iPod and PowerBook all to no avail.
Help!
Chris
PowerBook G4 (15-inch Double-Layer SD) Mac OS X (10.4.7) iPod 3G Dockable
PowerBook G4 (15-inch Double-Layer SD) Mac OS X (10.4.7)

let me be clearer.
let's say I have two songs: song A and song B. as you know each one has its info (artist, genre abum). if song A has an album name but the song B does not and both of them has artist names affected. after updating the ipod, when i browse by artist i only find the title of song A (not its artist name) and there is no artist name of the song B. it is the same if I browse by album. yet, if I browse by song title, the both songs appear.
is it clearer for you?
thank you for helping me
jerebella

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