Songs on my Ipod ALL gone...

I have an Ipod Nano, I use it everyday..listening to it...putting new songs on in it...all that, I love it, it worked great.
Until..
Yesterday.
I added a large amount of songs to my Itunes library that I wanted to put on my ipod,
but I assumed I would exceed the maximum capacity I could have on my Ipod and Itunes told me it would create some playlist and it would selectively choose songs to update on to my ipod?
I didn't really understand that...but I ended up deleting that playlist..and all my songs on my ipod were gone.
So, with an empty ipod, I thought I could easily just put my songs back on...but I'm getting all these error messages from Itunes such as
"cannot be updated, disk could not be read or written to"
and "songs on the ipod cannot be updated because all of the playlists no longer exist".
I checked for updates.
I reinstalled Itunes...and I thought by doing that I'd have a brand new itunes but it seems like I still have the same one with the same preferences.
There shouldn't be anything seriously wrong, cuz It was working just fine a few days ago...at least I hope not!
Anyways...I don't know what to do. And it's frustrating!
I'd greatly appreciate it if I could get some feedback with advice on what I should do...thank you!
Nano Windows XP
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can anyone help me ?
when i plug my ipod into my computer, itunes comes up,and i noticed that everything under the "playlist" section,for ex."recently added" "recently played" etc., are no longer there.
when i try syncing my ipod an error comes up and says
"songs on the iPod cannot be synced because all of the playlists seleccted for syncing no longer exist"
and all my songs are still on my library, but there are no songs left on my ipod.
can anyone help me fix this problem im having ?
dell Windows ME

can anyone help me ?
when i plug my ipod into my computer, itunes comes
up,and i noticed that everything under the "playlist"
section,for ex."recently added" "recently played"
etc., are no longer there.
when i try syncing my ipod an error comes up and
says
b>"songs on the iPod cannot be synced because all of
the playlists seleccted for syncing no longer
exist"
and all my songs are still on my library, but there
are no songs left on my ipod.
can anyone help me fix this problem im having
dell Windows ME
one of the problems may be that the original files may have been moved.
before you do anything, open itunes, then click on the ipod icon on the left side of the screen. there should be 4 check boxes. make sure the "manually manage music" check box is filled in
for one thing, try finding the folder where all of your music is stored.
then, click and drag the music into itunes, or onto your ipod.
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IF all songs on the ipod are also on the PC
Just restore the ipod
If Not on the PC
You will have to TRY and rep[air the ipods database with yamipod. This way is not full proof, but its the only option you have since you have not backed up http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/docs/help/corruptedipod.php

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please help me.
I'm such a loser.
ha.
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Use the instructions in this article to set the iPod to sync manually, and then drag the songs you want on the iPod to the iPod in the iTunes source list. The message you got means that your iTunes library is too big for all of it to fit on the iPod.
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Hey,
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