Songs have disappeared from my 1G iPod Touch

okay, so last night all bar 10 of my songs disappeared from my touch, they're all still on the device as the used space on the drive hasn't changed.
Heres a quick rundown of what I did leading up to the issue:
- played a few games
- browsed itunes for about half an hour, listened to previews and bought 2 or 3 songs
- watched about 4 videos on youtube
- decided to listen to some music so i opened up the music player
- the app then froze, i could get back to the home screen but any time i opened the player it was still at a blank white screen
- so i turned it off and waited a bit then turned it back on
- when i opened the music player it came up with the 'you have no music, you can get music from itunes'
- off and on again...this time it told me I had 7 songs, they were 7 songs i'd recently purchased on my ipod
- off and on again...now i had 10 songs, 3 more recent purchases showed up.
- off and on again about 5 more times...no extra songs showed up
What's Missing:
- around 7-8GB of music, as well as about $40 worth of unsynced purchases
- A music video and my digital copy of Transformers 2
Whats still there:
- all my apps & data
- 7 podcasts
NOTE: It should be noted that this has done it all on its own, as this ipod hasn't been connected to a computer for at least 2 months so there hasn't been any synching errors or the like...
I'm hoping the solution is as simple as restore and resynch, but then what about my unsynched purchases? Does iTunes allow you to redownload things without charging you?

i hadn't synched because every time i tried to itunes would jam and wouldn't synch
its a new computer, and should have no problems whatsoever with itunes yet all i seem to have is trouble with it, the store won't load on it either (and when it does load it loads as plain text html) which is why i did my purchasing solely on the touch...
it seems pretty arcane that you can't redownload songs from itunes if you've already paid for it....but oh well...
so does anyone have any idea why the touch would just stop recognising the songs on it all of a sudden?

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